¿HAY TESTIMONIOS DE ἕως + IMPERFECTO PARA EXPRESAR EL LÍMITE TEMPORAL EN EL PASADO, "HASTA QUE"?

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  • Antonio Lillo Alcaraz

Abstract

If the temporal limit of a situation in the past is signalled by means of a temporal subordinate introduced by έως, meaning "until", so that the situation in the main clause is concluded and a different one, expressed by the subordinate, initiated, Attic adopts a structure by which the main clause is constructed with an imperfect or indicative aorist, followed by έως with a verb in the indicative aorist; but if the same conjunction έως is followed by an imperfect, it expresses simultaneity, "while". Now, it is sometimes pointed out that, although the aorist is the usual verb form for indicating the "until" limit, the imperfect can also be employed. The paper analyzes the few texts in which έως in the sequence έως + imperfect has been interpreted as “util”.

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Antonio Lillo Alcaraz

Universidad de Murcia
How to Cite
Lillo Alcaraz, A. (2005). ¿HAY TESTIMONIOS DE ἕως + IMPERFECTO PARA EXPRESAR EL LÍMITE TEMPORAL EN EL PASADO, "HASTA QUE"?. Myrtia, 20, 9–16. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/36531
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