Middle and Passive Aorist and Future forms
Paul S Dixon
dixonps at juno.com
Fri Dec 13 14:10:28 EST 2002
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:36:19 +1100 "Peter Kirk" <prkirk at pmbx.net> writes:
> Paul, did you see my evidence (or did it not get posted to everyone
> for
> some reason?) that about 32, possibly a few more, of your 296 words
> are
> not in fact future passives? That implies something like 264 future
> passives in the NT including the string -QHS-. The remaining 22 or
> so of
> Iver's 286 future passives tagged by Friberg (or more from the
> larger
> number reported by Logos, perhaps because it includes forms of
> DUNAMAI?
> - Carl's 287 from Accordance may include the one participle) do not
> include -QHS-, in at least some cases because the theta has been
> elided
> according to regular morphophonemic rules - I'm not sure how that
> ties
> up with the 1st/2nd distinction.
Hi Peter:
Yes, I did get your post and thanks. Thought I responded to you. Didn't
you get it? Anyhow, I did run a morphological search, as you suggested,
and came up with 271 hits.
The 1st and 2nd future passive distinctions, which may still need to be
examined, may suggest that the 1st FPs are passive, after all, and that
the 2nd FPs tend to be middle. In other words, the -QHS- futures are
probably more passive.
For now I'll have to examine Carl's work, particularly his middle section
(Christmas time is hard on the middle). Anyhow, if his results stand,
then that cow becomes less sacred after all.
Paul Dixon
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