[B-Greek] accentuation of proclitic and enclitic lemmata

James Tauber jtauber at jtauber.com
Sun Aug 28 04:55:15 EDT 2005


The next release of MorphGNT will be a major release that includes an  
extra column: the surface form of the word *without* contextual  
changes like elision, movable-nu and various accentual changes. This  
new context-free surface form is what you might expect in a paradigm  
listing or if you asked someone to provide a particular inflected form.

A few of issues have arisen around the proper presentation of accents  
on proclitics and enclitics in the fields in my database *other than*  
the text itself. In other words, the context-free surface form and  
the lemma.

1. I assume that it is always proper for both the lemmata and context- 
free surface form of proclitics to appear unaccented, even though in  
certain contexts in actual text an accent can exist. (I presume that  
this is because there is no ambiguity as to where the accent would sit)

2. It appears that, in general, the lemmata of enclitics are shown in  
lexicons *with* their accents. I am inclined to do so in MorphGNT.

2a. In the case of the indefinite TIS, BDAG accents the lemma with a  
grave. Others don't accent it at all. What should MorphGNT do?

3. It appears that, in general, the context-free surface forms of  
enclitics are shown in grammars *with* their accent except for the  
following:

3a. in the case of the indefinite TIS, the accent seems to be written  
in the context-free surface form only when it falls on the ending but  
not when it falls on the stem (I presume that this is because the  
accents are different in the indefinite forms than the interrogative  
forms)

3b. Accents are not written on the context-free surface forms of SOU/ 
SOI/SE when enclitic (to avoid ambiguity, I presume)

3c. Accents are not written on the context-free surface forms of MOU/ 
MOI/ME even though there is no ambiguity with the non-enclitic variants.


What are people's thoughts on what the treatment of accents should be  
in the context-free surface forms and lemmata of these words in  
MorphGNT?


James
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