Not having read the book, I have absolutely no clue what you mean by
"marked" and "unmarked" uses of DE in Galatians. Could you elucidate.
>I bring this up because I keep reading the statement that the "aorist" is the
>unmarked tense. I think statements like this are misleading because they imply
>that the form of the word alone determines it's marked/unmarked status. The
>aorist can be used in contexts where it is "unexpected" by the experience
>reader and in these contexts the aorist would be semantically marked.
Now, now ... I'm beginnng to play with a model of the Aorist as an unmarked
tense. Tell me, Clay, how many grammarians have you heard/read saying
that--and who are they?
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