[B-Greek] Consonantal iota
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Wed Aug 13 10:04:29 EDT 2003
> >Is what Mounce calls a consonantal iota the same thing as what Smyth
> >calls a semivowel? Are these equivalent terms?
Carl commented:
> to Smyth's and it's what was used when I first learned Greek
> half a century ago by Joe Billy McMinn; at Harvard Joshua
> Whatmough used a simple Latin "y" and that's the convention
> used by W. Sidney Allen (_Vox Graeca_). Andrew L. Sihler
> (_New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin_) uses an italic
> *y with the asterisk preceding it to represent the original ...
I just noticed that as I was re-reading your comparative phonology notes
when your post arrived.
Would I assume correctly then that ... ?
1. "consonantal iota" (Mounce & others) = "semivowel" (Smyth) = "consonantal
yod"
and that
2. There are several conventions for representing this character in printed
texts, including:
a. A "pointed caret" (like Unicode 032D) under an iota (Mounce)
b. A "rounded circumflex" (like Unicode 032F) under an iota (Smyth)
c. The English letter 'y' (either italicized or marked with asterisk)
(McMinn, Whatmough, Allen, Sihler)
My *guess* is that the use of the 'y' might be as much for font/typesetting
purposes as any other reason?
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