3rd person Impv with a neuter plural subject
Carl Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Nov 26 08:12:06 EST 2002
> Do we have any examples of a 3rd person imperative (singular or plural) =
> with a plural neuter nominative? I am just wondering whether authors =
> tend to choose for the singular or plural imperative.
>
> Regards,
> Dirk Jongkind
>
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A quick search with Accordance found 202 instances of 3d sg. imperatives,
none with a neuter plural subject, and 32 instances of 3d pl. imperatives,
all with a masculine or generic plural subject (none neuter). This, of
course, doesn't mean anything at all, except that there are no neuter
plural subjects of third-person imperatives in the GNT; it tells us
nothing about what any of these authors MIGHT have written, as for
instance, whether Paul might conceivably have written ESTW TAUTA hUMIN
ANAQEMA or might have written rather ESTWSAN TAUTA hUMIN ANAQEMA; I
personally suspect he would have written it with a 3rd singular
imperative, but there' s no way to prove it from the evidence we have.
Carl W. Conrad
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
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