EAN + verb in present or aorist
Jonathan Robie
jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Thu Oct 31 10:12:09 EST 2002
At 02:26 PM 10/31/2002 +0000, Mark Wilson wrote:
>Iver:
>
>>As a follow-up to some recent questions on EAN and also whether Greek verbs
>>show aspect or time or both, I checked to see whether there was some system
>>to EAN clauses with either present or aorist verbs following.
>
>Your study here can not answer the question of "aspect or time or
>both" since you have excluded "time" with your choice of EAN. There
>is no temporal nature to verbs outside the Indicative, and all the
>verbs in your population will be Subjunctive, right?
I agree, Mark, but I would be interested in exploring what other patterns
might give us information on how time interacts in Greek sentences. So far,
I have looked a bit at NUN + Indicative Verb and TOTE + Indicative Verb.
Any guesses about other patterns worth exploring?
Jonathan
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