[B-Greek] Defective verbs and suppletions in Ancient Greek

Carl W.Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 8 10:00:18 EDT 2007


As a follow-up to the discussion of hESTANAI, hISTAMAI and hISTHMI, I  
note this morning a new BMCR review of a new book, Daniel Kölligan,  
_Suppletion und Defektivität im griechischen Verbum_. The review,  
which is in English, may be found at

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-08-20.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/2dsmcp

Defective verbs are those that are lacking one or more key items  
ordinarily found in a verb's full paradigm (e.g. EIMI has a present  
and imperfect and a future, but no other tenses); Suppletions are  
verbal elements that supply what is missing in another verb's  
paradigm (e.g. we say that the aorist of GINOMAI functions for the  
lacking aorist of EIMI, or that OISW and HNEGKA, though from  
different verb roots, supply the future and aorist respectively of  
FERW).

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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