[B-Greek] Deponent verbs
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 25 09:48:56 EDT 2006
"Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Well, the term itself ("deponent"), as I have come
> to find
> out, is used by some to refer to ACTIVE forms of
> verbs
> that are essentially MIDDLE: for instance, ERCOMAI
> is a middle verb, but its aorist HLQON and perfect
> ELHLUQA are sometimes referred to as "deponent."
Are there other examples of this pattern but where the
verb forms all derive from that same root? This looks
like a 'go, went, gone' example. In the above example,
the EL- verbs behave the same, whereas the ERC- verb
differs. I'd be interested in seeing this same
phenomena with verbs of the same root (Where the Pres
Ind is an OMAI verb, and its Aorist is built off the
same root but exhibits Active morphology.)
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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