[B-Greek] Interrogative Imperatives?
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Thu Jun 2 21:10:55 EDT 2005
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 07:43:45 +0900 (KST) <moon at sogang.ac.kr> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> In Greek, are there "interrogative third person imperatives",
> imperatives
> used as questions. For example, "Let her go home" is an
> imperative.
>
> Are there cases where "let her go home?" makes sense in
> Greek?
>
> In the case of "The children should go home", its
> question
> form
>
> "should the children go home?" makes sense.
>
> But what about "let the children go home"?
>
> The answer to this question comes down to finding instances of
> the
> use. Are there?
>
> Sincerely
>
> Moon Jung
> Sogang University,
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Perhaps it's a lack of imagination on my part, but an "interrogative
imperative" sounds like a griffin to me -- i.e. a beast made up of
disparate (and incompatible) parts.
george
gfsomsel
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