[B-Greek] Paradigms, Example Words and Stem Types
James Tauber
jtauber at jtauber.com
Fri Aug 25 03:34:03 EDT 2006
Regarding (2), I am developing such a table as part of my doctoral
work and as an additional resource to MorphGNT.
Inflectional class labelling of the form "n-2a" is due to Mounce
(used in both his Morphology of Biblical Greek and his Analytical
Lexical)
Other systems I am aware of include that of Funk in his Beginning-
Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek and Winbery and Brooks in
their Morphology of New Testament Greek (which I believe drew a lot
from Funk's system).
There is no standard system, although the one I am developing for my
own work will be a superset of the others I am aware of.
As to consistency, the noun classifications are fairly similar. The
verbal system, however, can be sliced different ways, and different
scholars have done so. No single hierarchy of categories is
sufficient for the verbal system, so my own work is placing verbs
along multiple axes.
Hope this helps.
James Tauber
On 25/08/2006, at 4:58 AM, Louis Sorenson wrote:
> 1) I'm trying to gather the various examples that different
> grammars use for
> the each class of the various noun and verb paradigms (Both Classical,
> Hellenistic and Biblical Greek). Does anyone have such a list?
>
> 2) Regarding the class name or identifier for each class -- does
> anyone
> have a table that compares the various ways of labeling them?
> Apostolos is
> identified as being n-2a in some places, stem type os_ou on the
> Perseus site
> and in the 2nd delcension (non-contracted) in Smyth. Verb stems have
> similar variations on stem type identification. I learned Greek in
> the
> 1970's and never remember any such numbering system as n-2a. I
> know that
> Robinson and Packard use a similar standard in their morphological
> analysis.
>
> I must assume that a computer standard system has been
> established. Does
> this system have a name? When did it begin? I don't have Mounce's
> Morphology book yet - just my Smyth, Moulton and other older
> stuff. Does
> Mounce use this system. Is it consistent or are there areas where the
> classification types are still unsettled? Any help on this would be
> appreciated.
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