The interaction of Greek voice with other parts of the language
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Oct 31 23:50:17 EST 2001
At 7:32 PM -0500 10/31/01, Mike Sangrey wrote:
>First let me say a big thank you to Carl and Iver for having this
>conversation out in the open. It gives those like me a chance to see
>the STUFF which ends up getting distilled into a grammar. It's not
>without some rather intense thinking on my part, but it is still hugely
>beneficial.
>
>Second, I have two questions that I'd love to see you two (and others)
>address, work through (and hopefully out the other side), stumble
>through <chuckle>, etc:
Fair enough questions, although I think that both of them HAVE been
addressed in the course of our discussions, so I'll offer very quick
observations that really would need to be fleshed out.
> 1. OK, I'm sitting here looking at a verb in my GNT. It is
> morphologically (A) or (M) or (P), pick one. If that
> morpheme doesn't tell me what it is, then what does? And I
> mean this to be a very serious question. I'm looking for
> guidance so that I can look at a GNT text (with its
> associated grammar and lexis) and tell from how the author
> has used that grammar and lexis how to interpret the
> morpheme. There is an interplay going on between the
> morpheme and other semantic pieces; what are those pieces and
> what's the interplay[1]?
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