Iteratives

[Peter Trudgill]

Im not an expert or a native speaker but it seems to me that in
Modern Greek that the full lexical item ksana, usually translated as
"again", can also operate as an iterative prefix e.g. ksanapao "I go
again". However, interestingly, the true meaning seems to be not
"again" but "on another occasion", future or past e.g. exeis
ksanapai? "Have you been before?" i.e. 'have you gone on another
occasion?'.
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Peter Trudgill
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