[B-Greek] Any "dual" verbs in the GNT?
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Wed Aug 27 06:54:12 EDT 2003
At 02:50 27/08/2003, Kenneth Litwak wrote:
>If, however, dual person verb
>inflections were not used after, say, 100 B.C., then
>there's no point in the search. To the extent that
>the GNT reflects Koine usage, I would guess this would
>be one of the ways in which Koine simplified Attic
>Greek.
Ken:
Indeed there's no point, since >> the dual died out in the living speech of
Attica by 300 B.C. Aeolic has no dual, and Ionic lost it very early
<< s.999 Smyth's Greek Grammar
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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