Jn 13:10; NIYASQAI
dixonps at juno.com
dixonps at juno.com
Sun Jan 21 10:38:40 EST 2001
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:38:30 -0600 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> At 10:34 PM -0800 1/20/01, dixonps at juno.com wrote:
> >Aren't the aorist middle infinitive and aorist passive infinitive
> forms
> >the same?
>
> No. Aorist middle = NIYASQAI; the aorist passive infinitive, if
> there is
> one, would be NIFQHNAI. And although there's an active NIPTW, the 17
> instances of this verb in the GNT don't display a passive. From my
> reading
> in Suzanne Kemmer's _The Middle Voice_ (about which I'll have
> something
> more to say in a few days), this is one of a number of "grooming"
> verbs
> that are likely to be middle voice in any language that marks middle
> forms.
Thanks, Carl. I had memorized the LUW chart over 25 years ago, and since
I was at home, didn't have my chart or lexicon available and had to go on
memory alone (yikes). Even as I wrote the email, the QHNAI ending popped
up, but it was dismissed. There, that should firmly fix it in my mind,
at least for now. :)
Thanks again.
Paul Dixon
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