From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Fri Jan 02 1998 - 10:25:30 EST
At 07:54 AM 1/2/98 -0600, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>Yes, and in Classical Attic, at least, I think that's the reason why the
>predicate word tends to be first.
Hmmm...if I put both the subject and the predicate before the copulative
verb, does the predicate still come first? Consider these sentences:
1. KAI hO LOGOS QEOS HN
2. KAI QEOS hO LOGOS HN *
My intuition, which has 40 years less experience than Carl's intuition,
says that #2 is not grammatical, but #1 is perfectly reasonable Greek.
Does this match the intuitions of more experienced Greeks?
Jonathan
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