[B-Greek] INA TI
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 02:51:56 EST 2009
Just a side note
In INA TI we may consider that the INA still made a contribution to sense.
1. TI is not subjunctive. And INA TI occurs with aorist indicative (Ps 2.1).
2. DIA TI covers similar ground and the DIA was considered a contribution to TI
3. INA TI appears older or more Egyptian than DIA TI. It was common in the OT
and occurs in the NT in OT quotations. Older means more likely to be carrying
some 'purpose/goal' within it, since the move is 'toward' 'subjunctive'.
So at least through the second century BCE the INA might intuitively be felt to
have some goal orientation.
4. I assume that Margaret mentioned and made good use of 'NA as the
subjunctive marker of modern Greek?
If so, then her claim is that this subjunctive marker is 2000 yr. old, which of
course fits with things like QELW INA, which is so 'modern' Greek that we were
sometimes using this as a 'runaround' when trying to communicate with
locals in KWS last May. They didn't even blink when we used INA +
YPOTAKTIKH as an infinitive runaround, since that is 'their' language.
(Oh, we pushed them when we could, and used APAREMFATA left and right,
but whenever communication got sluggish we had resort to
INA+YPOTAKTIKH.
My question would then become, how did this
interface with the Second Sophistic, and how does this interface with
Josephus and Plutarch?
ERRWSQE
IWANHS
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