Timeline for A Conditional Sentence in Direct and Indirect Speech
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| Jun 7, 2021 at 21:10 | comment | added | Sebastian Koppehel | … and thus you have all those vague criteria and remarks like “but other uses are occasionally found in the best authors,” etc., especially around rules concerning mood. | |
| Jun 7, 2021 at 21:05 | comment | added | Sebastian Koppehel | @tony That is a philosophical question, but personally I do not think it is a helpful framing to call attraction a legitimized mistake. To us the subjunctive, all too often, feels like a meaningless complication of grammar that we have to employ according to numerous rules when composing Latin prose. To native speakers (I suspect) it was a meaningful tool to intuitively structure their thoughts and sentences. Many of the rules we learn were dreamt up much later by philologists trying to make sense of the chaotic usage found in the sources … | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 19:44 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @tony Those concepts are well worth studying if you want to dig deeper into Latin grammar. It makes some sense to call all language evolution "legitimization of mistakes", and I see nothing deeply different in the various attraction phenomena (of mode and case) in Latin. Things don't always go as you'd expect, but language is not exactly a logic puzzle. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 8:51 | comment | added | tony | @Joonas llmavirta: Concepts e.g. "relative clause of characteristic" & "attraction of mode" are completely new to me. The latter I am still asking Seb about--it appears to be the legitimising of a mistake--do you have a thought on this one? | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 15:59 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @tony I see, I read too hastily. I'm not sure if the I at the end of the perfect stem is retained in all forms. Contracting to a single long I is appealing, but I'm not sure if it's done. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 15:34 | vote | accept | tony | ||
| Jun 4, 2021 at 15:34 | comment | added | tony | @Joonas llmavirta: According to Wiki's conjugation tables; I made the mistake of a single "i" in the original posting--if it is a mistake? | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 15:25 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | Does puniissemus have an extra I? | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 14:29 | history | answered | Sebastian Koppehel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |