participles

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 20 10:28:43 EDT 2002


At 6:45 AM -0700 9/20/02, Matthew Ferris wrote:
>Can someone confirm that I am on the right track with participles.  Mark 1:10
>contains two participles:
>ANABAINWN 	I take this to  be a Pres. Act. Participle,  masc, nom. sing.
>KATABAINON  Pres. Act. Participle, neut nom/acc sing.
>
>Is my parsing proper?

Yes, this is right. It might be worth noting that the stem of present,
future, and second-aorist (thematic) active participles will always be
-ONT-, that the -T of that stem falls off when the word ends in a stem (m.
nom. sg. -WNT --> -WN, n. nom./acc. sg. -ONT --> ON, that phonetic changes
are responsible for the dat. pl. m. & n. -ONTSI --> OUSI, and that similar
phonetic changes are responsible for the development of the feminine from
-ONTIA --> -OUSA (which is declined acc. to first-declension short-a stem
pattern). The same factors are at work in first-aorist active participles
with stem in -ANT, one major difference being that the nom. sg. m. adds -S
to -ANT to form -AS, the fem.  -ANTIA --> -ASA (also declined acc. to
first-declension short-a stem pattern). Middle-passive participles
shouldn't ever be problematic to recognize, since there are no phonetic
changes rendering their declension seemingly irregular. Perfect active
participles are more complex, and I won't try to get into them here.
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