[B-Greek] Passive Imperative

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 14 16:49:28 EDT 2005


On Aug 14, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:

> I feel quite comfortable with the middle-passive classification
> of verbs since Hebrew Niphal and Hithpael verbs can both be passive
> or middle. Context gives guidance as to which it is. But what about
> forms in Greek where there is a difference between middle and passive
> forms? There I would not expect flexibility, since otherwise why have
> a distinction in forms.

This seems to imply that a distinction in form *requires* a  
distinction in function.


Elizabeth Kline







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