[B-Greek] QHN QHS QH... as Middle
Delbert Flora
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Thu Aug 16 18:14:16 EDT 2007
Follow up to this statement by Dr. C. Conrad:
>The fact is that it is erroneous to think of the -QH- endings as
>distinctly passive; they are, like the MAI/SAI/TAI,MHN/SO/TO endings,
>ambivalently middle-passive. An important fact of Greek linguistic history
>is that the -QH- forms increasingly came to replace the older
>second-aorist MHN/SO/TO aorists. E.g., the form EGENHQHN supplants the
>older form EGENOMHN with no demonstrable difference in meaning from
>EGENOMHN.
For some reason, I was under the impression that MOST MHN/SO/TO forms are
pragmatically (how they are actually used in the GNT) middle, and that MOST
QHN/QHS/QH forms are pragmatically passive. Given the above information, is
my impression wrong? It would not make sense for a primarily middle
conjugation to be replaced by a primarily passive conjugation.
Delbert Flora
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