conditionals

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• Subject: conditionals
• From: Mari Olsen <molsen@astrid.ling.nwu.edu>
• Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 11:40:30 CST

Porter 1989 claims that the NT has no examples of Ia conditionals in
the imperfect, which he calls 'assertions for the sake of argument.'
He has a tenseless analysis of Greek, which I am arguing against, in
part, in my thesis.  I was therefore wondering if past-referring
conditionals were less frequent in general.  Does anyone know the
proportion of the temporal reference in conditional sentences of the
New Testament or another contemporaneous (Greek!) text:  are
past-referring conditionals (of any class) disfavored?  Alternatively,
does anyone know where I might find such information?


Mari Broman Olsen
Northwestern University
Department of Linguistics
2016 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

molsen@astrid.ling.nwu.edu
molsen@babel.ling.nwu.edu

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