[B-Greek] Lemmatization Using the Aorist in Danker Festschrift
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 5 12:00:11 EDT 2004
At 02:16 PM 5/11/2004 -0400, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>In a message sent under the subject-header, "Summary of the Danker vol." a
>week ago Sunday (March 2, 2004), Rod Decker summarized the contents of the
>volume as a whole and noted some of the items he deemed of particular
>interest. Now that my copy has arrived and I've begun to assimilate this
>rich collection, I thought I would comment in particular on the single
>issue discussed there that is of most immediate interest to me: a
>lexicographer's perspective on the question of deponency. The key
>conclusions I have found particularly significant and with both of which I
>quite heartily concur are: (1) the notion of "deponency" should be dropped
>altogether with respect to Greek grammar; (2) Greek verbs should preferably
>be lemmatized in lexicons with aorist-stem headwords (I sense this is also
>Randall Buth's considered opinion, probably of several others as well).
Sorry to dredge up a discussion back from May 11, but I found the
second of Carl's points here on lemmatizing Greek verbs with aorist-
stem headwords to be absolutely intriguing and I can't let go of it.
Unfortunately, the subsequent discussion on B-Greek did not touch on
this at all.
What does this proposal mean? How would it work? At first, I thought
it was ridiculous because almost every verb would start with epsilon E-,
but then I realized that the aorist infinitive does not have the augment
and gives a plausible looking lemma. Can anyone explain this further?
I've got the book on order, but one can read small extracts anywhere in
the book using the "search inside the book" feature at amazon.com.
Randy Buth's contribution to the Festschrift touches on this as well.
Stephen Carlson
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