[B-Greek] Interrogative Imperatives?

moon at sogang.ac.kr moon at sogang.ac.kr
Sat Jun 4 19:32:38 EDT 2005





Hi, George, what do you think of the following obsevation of Smyth 
1838,  p. 409:


 


The Third person may be used in questions: 


 OUKOUN KEISQW TAUTA. 

 Shall these points 
be established? P.L. 820 e,


 


I wonder if there are some more examples.


 


Moon Jung


Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
--- Original Message ---
>From    : 
 "George F Somsel"<gfsomsel at juno.com>
To      : 
 "moon at sogang.ac.kr"<moon at sogang.ac.kr>
Date    : 
 2005/06/03 ±Ý¿äÀÏ ¿ÀÀü 10:10:55
Subject : 
 Re: [B-Greek] Interrogative Imperatives?
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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