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Publication details [#20291]

Greenberg, Joseph H. 1986. The realis-irrealis continuum in the classical Greek conditional. In Ford, Cecilia E. and Sandra A. Thompson. Conditionals in discourse: A text-based study from English. In : 353–372. : 247–264.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

Language as a subject

Greek, Ancient

Annotation

G. shows how the indicative, subjunctive and optative moods of the Greek verb interact with conditional particles and the tense/aspect forms of the verb to express a set of nine types, along the semantic dimensions of hypotheticality and time.