[B-Greek] Passive Imperative
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 15 12:41:06 EDT 2005
Mitch wrote:
> > If so, I seem to recall
> > your indicating that these SAMHN, SW, SATO forms
> were
> > semantically Middle (not Passive). Hence my
> confusion.
> > Why would an exclusively Middle conjugation give
> way
> > to a Middle-Passive conjugation?
Dr. Conrad replied:
> I would not and don't think that I ever did say that
> the -SAMHN KTL
> forms were exclusively middle.
Mitch now writes:
I had this comment in mind...
At 3:31 PM -0700 8/5/03, waldo slusher wrote: <snip>
(What follows is Dr. Conrad's reply to waldo...)
BUT: IF my supposition of the above paragraph IS
right, I would NOT expect
to find many first-aorist forms in -SAMHN/SW/SATO
bearing passive meaning;
rather I think that in the development of the language
the polarity of
first-aorist actives in -SA and aorist MPs in -QHN is
the dominant
development, while the first-aorist middles in
-SAMHN/SW/SATO constitute a
relatively short-lived morphoparadigm in the classical
Attic period.
Mitch writes again...
Could you clarify the above for me? I took this to
mean that the SAMHN/SW/SATO were exclusively Middle.
(I didn't reproduce the entire email to waldo since it
was lengthy. I hope this portion is not taking
something out of context. If so, please accept my
apologies)
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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