[B-Greek] Deponents (was 2nd aorsit ... FOLLOW UP)
Cirk Bejnar
eluchil404 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 1 10:49:51 EST 2004
--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote:
>It might
> theoretically make sense to define a "deponent" verb
> as a verb that doesn't
> have an active morphoparadigm
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University
> (Emeritus)
I find this efinition helpful as a notation to remind
me what lemma to look up in a dictionary--one hates to
waste time looking for ERCW when ERCOMAI is what you
need--and not to try and reinterpret a gloss to give
it a "middle sense" since such force has already been
traslated.
On the other hand, when I casually mentioned the term
'deponent' tomy professor (in the context of a verb
that lacked an future-active morphoparadigm) he
reacted much as Dr. Conrad would and I could only
appease him by affirming that I knew the term was
"based on a misunderstanding of medeival Latin
grammarians" even if it retained some utility for me.
Cirk R. Bejnar
Undergratuate in Classics
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