From: Walt McFall (ana@net1.nw.com.au)
Date: Thu May 22 1997 - 09:01:10 EDT
> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:55:58 -0400
> To: Jonathan Robie <jwrobie@mindspring.com>
> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
> Subject: Re: (Augmented!) imperfects without past reference
>
> See my corrected post. It's Smyth #1780, cf, also #1827, 1832; BDF #359,
> which does discuss the older classical Attic usages. There's no way you
> could know this without some sense of the history of the language or
> looking carefully at the grammars. Wallace has a not-very-adequate
> discussion under the heading, "Conative (Voluntative, Tendential)
> Imperfect," pp. 550-552.
G'day Carl,
Does Smyth provide adequate answers? What would you have
included that Wallace didn't?
Just curious...
Regards,
Walt McFall
ana@net1.nw.com.au
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