[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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