[B-Greek] Correction re: PERIKEITAI (was "Re: Mark 9:42")
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 13 10:42:21 EDT 2006
On Sep 13, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> It was off the top of my head the other day that I said KEIMAI
> functions as the perfect tense for hIHMI -- that's wrong. Rather
> KEIMAI and its compoundsdefinitely did function
> for the perfect of TIQHMI and its functions. Some snippets that
> come to mind:
>
> Mt 3:10 HDH DE hH AXINH PROS THN hRIZAN TWN DENDRWN KEITAI
>
> NOMOS EN LOKROIS KEITAI ... "There's a law on the books in Locri ... "
Carl,
LSJ only states that KEIMAI is used for the passive of TIQHMI. Smyth
however spells it out #791 "KEIMAI ... regularly used in the present
and imperfect instead of the perfect and pluperfect passive of
TIQHMI" and again #1752 "The active or the middle deponent of a
transitive verb used transitively or of an intransitive verb my
replace the passive of a transitive verb."
The consequence of this is a morphological present/imperfect having a
stative aspect?
Elizabeth Kline
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