[B-Greek] BBG: Elementary Parsing Question Contract Verbs
Ann Nyland
nyland at tsn.cc
Tue Sep 12 18:19:55 EDT 2006
Hi Steve,
Would you give a direct quote from Mounce ("but for POIEW, according to
Mounce, the E contract and E connecting vowel contract to E"), or a page
reference?
Thanks,
Ann Nyland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Baldwin" <stbaldwi at hotmail.com>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:34 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] BBG: Elementary Parsing Question Contract Verbs
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
> Please forgive this elementary question.
> But in reviewing contract verbs, I am slightly puzzled.
>
> AGAPAW P-MP-I 2sg is AGAPAi from AGAPA + E + SAI
> POIEW P-MP-I 2sg is POIHi from POIE + E + SAI
>
> The sigma is intervocalic and will drop, leading to a veritable soup of
> vowels.
>
> According to Mounce, BBG 18.18, footnotes 3 and 4 describe the morphology
> from the addition of the connecting vowel and the ending to the final
> form:
> 3: (AGAPAW) AESAI > ASAI > AAI > AI > Ai
> 4: (POIEW) EESAI > ESAI > EAI > HI > Hi
>
> According to the above algorithm:
> 1. The contract vowel and the connecting vowel contract
> 2. The sigma drops
> 3. The final three vowels contract as a vowel+dipthong pair
>
> This works for AGAPAW above, but for POIEW, according to Mounce, the E
> contract and E connecting vowel contract to E. This does not follow the
> contract rules as I have learned them (E+E > EI). There doesn't seem to be
> any explanation for this inconsistency (if indeed it is one).
>
> Have I missed something?
> Is there an explanation? Is the above method correct? Is the EE > E merely
> an irregular form?
> I have searched in vain for clear precedence rules (to borrow the
> mathematical term) when it comes to morphology such as the examples above.
> If anyone has any guidelines, I'd be pleased to hear from you.
>
> Thank you for your patience
> Steve
>
> Stephen Baldwin
> stbaldwi at hotmail.com
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