[B-Greek] Last question on Verbal components
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 20 13:22:17 EST 2004
I am so very sorry for belaboring this point. I
promise to move on even if I fail to understand this.
I am having a hard time formulating my question. But
here is another example that may help me understand
the idea of STEMS and their relationship to VOICE.
Mounce lists the LU of this Aorist Active Participle
as the "unaumented Aorist ACTIVE stem" (my emphasis).
LU SA NT OS
The SA is the Tense formative, but not the VOICE
formative if I understand him right. (And of course
this would only be the tense formatives in the Active
and Middle, not the Passive.)
However, if you look at the Aorist Middle and Passive
forms, this ACTIVE VOICE LU "stem" remains. Seems to
me that identifying this LU as being ACTIVE VOICE
somehow is creating confusion, since the same LU is
found in the Middle and Passive VOICE forms of this
participle.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding his terminology. Or maybe
he's using a bad example to illustrate his point. In
my mind, I am predisposed to think this way:
LUSA is the Active and Middle
LUQ is the Passive
I could even think of LU-SANT as Active and LU-SAMEN
as Middle, and LU-QENT as Passive. More letters to
remember but maybe a bit more accurate. However, the
down side is I am including thematic vowels as part of
the VOICE indicators which doesn't make sense even to
me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Mitch Larramore
Spring Branch, Texas
Student/Memorial High School
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