[B-Greek] Greetings & Question

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Sun Oct 17 16:08:32 EDT 2004


On Oct 17, 2004, at 2:53 PM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:

> Note carefully the commas. This shows that UBS (rightly) does NOT take 
> the nouns in the conditional sentences as the subjects of the explicit 
> verbs. The nouns in the protases of the conditional sentences are 
> viewed as subjects of elliptical verbs of being (ESTIN, EISIN, ESTIN), 
> which is common in Greek. The explicit verbs are viewed as the main 
> verbs of the apodoses.

Sorry, the above should read "(EISIN, EISIN, ESTIN)."
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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