Kenneth Whistler wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">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.I don't remember any more: How many verb forms are there in Attic Greek?
Too dang many. ;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Middle voice and aorist subtleties : a Belgian teenager's joy...
voice: active, middle, passive
mood: indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative, infinitive, participle
tense: present, imperfect, future, aorist, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
Patrick Andries