[B-Greek] TRUE Deponents
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Sep 13 08:30:47 EDT 2004
At 5:00 AM -0700 9/13/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>Would anyone provide for me two or three TRUE Middle
>deponents in the GNT. I am looking for a few deponent
>verbs such that they have no ACTIVE forms (in any
>form), are Middle in FORM, and clearly denote an
>ACTIVE VOICE semantics (not a MIDDLE). In essence, I
>am looking for a few UNDISPUTED deponents.
Good luck! Of course I'm somewhat curious what you mean by a verb that's
middle in FORM but active in SEMANTICS. If you are willing to call
intransitive verbs active semantically, there are several verbs one might
cite, but you should realize that there are also morphologically active
verbs that could be argued to have passive semantics. For questions like
this, as I've tried to show in past threads, how you define your terms in
matters of voice makes a big difference.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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