Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>>I don't remember any more: How many verb forms are there in Attic Greek?
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>Too dang many. ;-)
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Can (may) a linguist express such a value statement? Even with that new
punctuation called a smiley. Are there some languages more "optimized"
than others? I sometimes wonder.
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>voice: active, middle, passive
>mood: indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative, infinitive, participle
>tense: present, imperfect, future, aorist, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
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Middle voice and aorist subtleties : a Belgian teenager's joy...
Patrick Andries
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