[B-Greek] Aorist Passive with Active endings

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jan 30 15:47:17 EST 2004


At 10:17 AM -0800 1/30/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>Why would Aorist Passive verbs use Active endings.
>
>Sorry for these elementary questions.

Because it's not really essentially passive; it's built upon the mostly
intransitive aorists of the type EFANHN/HS/H or ESTHN/ESTHS/ESTH (what I
tend to call "third aorists." The -QH- forms are an expansion of that type
of aorist, which ALWAYS used "active" endings (but I wouldn't even call
those endings particularly "active" so much as "default endings." Mitch,
you may just possibly find helpful my short piece entitled, "Active, Middle
and Passive: Understanding Ancient Greek Voice." You can find it on my page

	http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/current.html

Option-click on the URL of the document to download it.  The fuller
explanation for the question you're raising is in my older and longer
document, also available on that page, entitled "New Observations on
Ancient Greek Voice" (NewObsAncGrkVc.pdf).
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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