Momentary-Durative
petegray
petegray at btinternet.com
Wed Jul 14 19:29:06 UTC 1999
>>> I don't see any parts of Sans lit in which aorist has resultative
>>> meaning.
If you didn't like my first example, how about:
Ramayana 2:64:52
yah s'aren.aikaputram tvam aka:rsi:r aputrakam
with one arrow you have rendered me childless, who had but one son
(Sorry you don't like my transliteration - it's due to using ASCII)
or Mahabharata 5:3:10
tad akars.it prajagaram
that has produced sleepiness
or Mahabharata 2:60:7
kim nu pu:rvam para:jais.i:t a:tma:nam
whom you have lost first, yourself....
In all of these examples the result of the action is the point of the
statement - and it is an aorist which is used to describe it.
Peter
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