Re: greek word order
| From: | Dan Seriff <microtonal@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 24, 2001, 8:49 |
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on 9/23/01 9:55 PM, Cian Ross at cian@COX-INTERNET.COM wrote:
> On 9/23/01 at 7:09 PM Heather Rice wrote:
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>> I have been curious about something for a very long
>> time. What is the word order for ancient greek?
>
> To my (possibly imperfect) memory, it's usually SVO.
Generally, yes, it's SVO, but it's pretty flexible, since just about
everything is inflected. Most of the particles (especially "men", "de", and
"gar") have specific places they need to go, but other than that freedom
reigns.
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.
Daniel Seriff
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