[B-Greek] the indefinite article in Modern Greek

tmcos at rogers.com tmcos at rogers.com
Mon Apr 26 06:33:04 EDT 2004


I am actually surprised that modern Greek has developed an indefinite article. Biblical Greek of course has no such thing as the indefinite article.

Tony Costa

> 
> From: moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr
> Date: 2004/04/26 Mon AM 12:29:52 EDT
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [B-Greek] the indefinite article in Modern Greek
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I read that the modern Greek has developed the indefinite article EIS.
> But the indefinite article does not appear with predicates. What would it
> mean? Would it mean that nouns in predicate position were not in fact 
> nouns in the ancient Greek but more like adjective?
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Moon
> 
> Moon R. Jung
> Associate Professor
> Dept of Media Technology
> Graduate School of Media Comm
> Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
> 
> 
> 

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