[B-Greek] BBG: Elementary Parsing Question Contract Verbs
Randall Buth
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Tue Sep 12 19:15:37 EDT 2006
Tauber egrapsen
>Note that POIEI was an earlier alternative form of the 2sg present
middle. Both it and POIHi would likely have been pronounced the same
in the 1st century, mind you.>
They were different in the first century as well as in previous
centuries. 1c [IPA: pyi] did not sound like [IPA: pye]. It was later
in the 2-4 century CE that H [e] raised up to join with EI [i] .
>It should be noted that Mounce's rules, in general, conflate
historical change with synchronic morphophonology. It is highly
misleading to think that Greek speakers generated the inflected forms
through the application of those rules.?>
Amen.
Speakers of a language never generate morphological forms thru
conscious manipulation of rules. That is "SecondLanguage Acquisiton
101" about what not to do when learning a language for fluency.
Imagine a three year old kid going thru the process!
ERRWSO
Randall Buth
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