[B-Greek] Subjunctive Aorist
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Apr 30 06:48:07 EDT 2003
At 10:54 AM +0300 4/30/03, Iver Larsen wrote:
>
>Would it help if we translated "for every knee to bow and every tongue to
>confess"? I am not suggesting that for a real translation, only to indicate
>that the hINA plus subjunctive is close to the infinitive, and it is often
>not clear whether purpose or result was intended, and I don't think it is
>important to make such a distinction every time. One of the problems is
>whether to classify "intended result" under result of purpose.
I would take this one step further and say (as I have said hitherto in this
forum) that clauses in hINA + subjunctive are indeed so close to the
infinitive that they often appear as simple noun clauses. The infinitive in
Modern Greek is NA + subjunctive (aorist or present subjunctive to
differentiate aspect only); the infinitive in Modern Greek is conjugated
for person and number, strange as that may seem, The point, however, is
that Iver is quite right here; hINA clauses cannot in many cases be readily
classified as result-clauses OR as purpose clauses; often enough they are
simply substantive clauses.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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