[B-Greek] English "postscriptives"
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 17:56:10 EST 2009
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Murray Hogg <muzhogg at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies for a rather off-topic question - although it has some connection with the teaching of Greek, if not the language itself.
>
> In an effort to explain the use of postscriptives in Greek (DE, GAR, AN, etc) I've been drawing analogy with the way in which English can show a related sort of syntax. For example the simple sentence "It's a sunny day therefore I am going to the beach" can be rendered as a postscriptive after the Greek manner;
>
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The way I understand the term 'postscripts' is a part of word which is
attached at the tail. E.g. In Korean and Japanese, these are
equivalent to 'prepositions' in English. Maybe I'm confused. The
same term may mean differently in different languages?
Oun Kwon.
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