[B-Greek] Interrogative Imperatives?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sat Jun 4 19:40:11 EDT 2005


On Jun 4, 2005, at 7:32 PM, moon at sogang.ac.kr wrote:

> Hi, George, what do you think of the following obsevation of Smyth
> 1838,  p. 409:
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> The Third person may be used in questions:
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>  OUKOUN KEISQW TAUTA.
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>  Shall these points
> be established? P.L. 820 e,
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> I wonder if there are some more examples.

I'll let George answer for himself, but for my own part, I would not  
describe KEISQW itself as "interrogative" in the above instance; it
seems to me that OUKOUN is functioning here like a "N'est-ce pas" or  
a "Nicht wahr? or a "Non e vero?", so that the sentence,
OUKOUN KEISQW TAUTA bears the sense "Those points should be settled  
(agreed upon), don't you think?"

But I had the impression, Moon, that you were raising the question  
with regard to some GNT text that you haven't mentioned? Just
what DID you have in mind in raising the question about interrogative  
imperatives?

Carl W. Conrad
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