Stanley E. Porter and Matthew Brook O’Donnell 22 the singular and plural forms, was predicted to be equiprobable, espe- cially since the Greek of the New Testament no longer has a dual num- ber. System 10: In the PARTICIPATION system 77, the ±included opposi- tion, realized in the non-third person and the third person forms, was predicted to be equiprobable. System 11: The ±direct opposition, real- ized in the first and second person forms, was predicted to be equiproba- ble. For both systems 10 and 11, prior to this study, we had only intui- tions on which to base these predictions, but equiprobability seemed likely on the basis of the mix of narrative and expositional material in the New Testament. System 12: In the attitude system, the ±assertive oppo- sition, realized in the indicative and non-indicative (excluding participle and infinitive) mood forms, was predicted to be skewed, on the basis of what is already known of frequency of the indicative verbal form, as well as morphological, implicational and semantic criteria 78. System 13: The +projective/+directive opposition, realized in the subjunctive/optative or imperative mood forms, was predicted to be equiprobable, on the basis of rudimentary distributional figures, as well as morphological, implica- tional and semantic criteria 79. System 14: The ±contingent opposition, realized in the optative and subjunctive mood forms, was predicted to be skewed, on the basis of well-known distributional figures regarding the disappearance of the optative in Hellenistic Greek, including that of the New Testament, as well as morphological, implicational and semantic criteria 80. b. Actual Results The chart in Appendix A also shows the Greek verbal network with calculated probabilities from the Greek New Testament attached to each of the terms in the systems. A summary of the relationship between the predictions offered and the results is that virtually all of the predictions were warranted, on the basis of the analysis offered in Verbal Aspect, taking into consideration not only rudimentary distributional calculations, but morphological, implicational and semantic criteria as well. Systems 2, 9, 10, 11, and 13 were predicted to be equiprobable, and all of them fell within the parameters set above for equiprobable distribution. In systems 9 and 10, the distributions were closer to the boundary than in the others 77 See Porter, Idioms of the Greek New Testament, pp. 76-79, with reference to Lyons, Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, pp. 276-78. 78 Porter, Verbal Aspect, pp. 163-77; idem, Idioms of the Greek New Testament, pp. 50-61. 79 Porter, Verbal Aspect, p. 181, as well as pp. 167-77, 321-62; idem, Idioms of the Greek New Testament, pp. 52-61; cf. Reed, Discourse Analysis of Philippians, p. 115. 80 Porter, Verbal Aspect, pp. 181, 321-35; idem, Idioms of the Greek New Testament, pp. 56-61.