[B-Greek] the indefinite article in Modern Greek

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Apr 26 06:54:27 EDT 2004


At 6:33 AM -0400 4/26/04, <tmcos at rogers.com> wrote:
>I am actually surprised that modern Greek has developed an indefinite
>article. Biblical Greek of course has no such thing as the indefinite
>article.

Of course there isn't! But cf. BDAG s.v. hEIS ("3. an unspecified entity,
some/one=TIS, whereby hEIS can mean exactly the same thing as the indef.
art. "); several features of Modern Greek are present in embryo in the
Koine, one of the reasons I've argued that the Koine is a language in flux.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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