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Re: greek word order

From:Karapcik, Mike <karapcik@...>
Date:Monday, September 24, 2001, 13:31
        When I took Modern (Demotic) Greek 1 & 2 in college (around '94),
the standard was SVO, though SOV was sometimes used with the subjunctive.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: bjm10@CORNELL.EDU
| Subject: Re: greek word order
|
| On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Dan Seriff wrote:
|
| > Personally, I tend to order my Greek verb-finally like
| Latin, but I suppose
| > that's just a quirk of mine. My Greek professor almost
| invariably fell into
| > SVO.
|
| All the Greeks I know (and the conversational Greek texts
| I've consulted)
| use SVO.
|