[B-Greek] Relative Clause and Subjunctive Mood
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Tue Oct 11 09:16:00 EDT 2005
On Oct 11, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Mitch Larramore wrote:
> It is pointed out that Relative Clauses usually
> contain an Indicative verb, and that only 10 percent
> (or so) of such usages contain a Subjunctive verb. Why
> would that be the case? I can't think of any reason
> why the "Mood" of the finite verb would have a bearing
> on whether or not it is used in a Relative Clause.
Mitch, I haven't done any study of this, but I would think
that most relative clauses are used to add factual descriptive
information about nouns and that relatively (pun intended)
few of them fall into the category of generalizing (anyone who ...)
relative clauses. The factual clauses would have indicatives
andthe generalizing clauses would have subjunctives.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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