[B-Greek] Mounce pg 362/hISTAS/TIQEIS
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue May 11 10:25:37 EDT 2004
At 6:06 AM -0700 5/11/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>3 quick questions (my subject heading was an attempt
>to give the topic of each question as requested by
>moderators)
Thanks for doing that, Mitch.
I'll leave your first question for somebody who currently owns a copy of
Mounce, but I think I can say something possibly helpful about #s 2 and 3.
>1.
>Mounce has headings (present, aorist, perfect) at the
>top of this page. Do these categories relate to the
>subcategories on the page? I really am considering
>that these headings at the top are a mistake
>(especially the aorist and perfect). Can someone
>confirm or deny this so I can make sure I am
>memorizing the right conjugations.
>
>2.
>Does hISTAS (Present Participle) use the Aorist Active
>endings? (Would this be the reverse of the Second
>Aorist, like the Second Present. I know that makes no
>sense!)
>
>3.
>Is the Q in TIQEIS (Present Participle) part of the
>stem or the same as the Aor Pass Participle endings?
Active participles (other than the perfect) are easy to handle, once you
realize that
(a)the active participial sign is -NT- and that this always attaches to a
vocalic stem, whether A- or O- or E- or sometimes even U- (e.g. DUS/DUNTOS).
(b) that the active THEMATIC participles (present, second aorist) always
lengthen the O to W and lose the -T- of the participial sign in the
nominative sg. and become -OUSI in the dative plural;
(c) that the active NON-thematic participles lengthen the vowel, lose the
-T- and take an -S nominative ending in the nominative sg., and lengthen
the vowel, lose the -T- and take an -SI in the dative plural.
More specifically as to hISTAS and TIQEIS:
(2) Yes, hISTAS declines like 1st aorist participles (because of rule (b)
cited above; and
(3) Yes, -Q- is part of the root of TIQEIS (the ROOT is QE-, the present
STEM is TIQE-) and yes, it declines like an aorist passive participle (for
the reason that the aorist passive stem ends in -QE- while the present
active stem TIQE- (and the aorist active stem QE- too) coincidentally have
the same phonetic configuration--and because the so-called aorist "passive"
is really not essentially passive at all but a non-thematic aorist active
form.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list