[B-Greek] Consonant stem ending + NTAI
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 17 09:16:39 EDT 2003
The grammar I'm reading says that the Perfect Middle
3rd pers. pl endings cannot be joined to a consonant,
as in the conjugation of AGW (redup-AG + NTAI). In
stead, he gives the periphrastic, implying
that the Greeks would use the periphrasis in stead of
the 3rd pers pl. In fact, according to his
conjugation, there is no 3rd pers. pl. form of the
Middle Perfect with verb stems ending in a consonant.
What I'm not following is why the Greeks didn't come
up with a form for this occasion, or did they?
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Mitch Larramore
Spring Branch, Texas
Student/Memorial High School
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