[B-Greek] Deponents
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jul 24 16:16:45 EDT 2006
I hate to keep sounding a broken record for those who have noted my
previous responses to questions of this sort over several years on
this list since 1997. To quote A.T. Robertson's big grammar(1934),
p. 332: "The so-called 'deponent' verbs: These call for a word at
the risk of trespassing on t=syntax. Moulton is certainly right in
saying tht the term should be applied to all three voices if to any.
The truth is that it should not be used at all." What are most-
commonly called "deponent" verbs are verbs that lack an active form
in the present or another tense. Most of them are verbs that really
have middle lemmas (lemmata, if you prefer) and generally an aorist
(and/or future) in a -QH- form. There are certainly far more than 11
verbs that I would call "middle" verbs. If you care to pursue this
further, see my page
http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/GrkVc.html
On Jul 24, 2006, at 3:06 PM, José Antonio Septién wrote:
> My question is this: According to Daniel B. Wallace, the number of
> true "deponent" verbs in NT greek is about 11. But other
> grammarians expand that number up to 75 % of NT verbs. Is Dr.
> Wallace right? Is it possible to calculate a percentege of
> "deponents" in NT writings?
>
> Thanks.
> J. A. Septien
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Carl W. Conrad
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