On the Synchrony and Diachrony of Modern Greek NA
Brian Daniel Joseph · Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies · 1981
The Modern Greek particle ná has two main uses, as a subordinating particle and as a deictic particle. In this first use, it occurs with verbs in a variety of complement structures, as in (1), as well as with some apparent main-clause verbs, as in (2), that have special (i.e. non-declarative) illocutionary force, and may be derivable from underlying abstract complement structures: