[B-Greek] Question about accent marks in BBG

Matthew Blair mpblair at gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 11:55:19 EST 2007


Greetings all, and best wishes for a Happy New Year!

I'm just starting out on a self-learning course of study, and I have a
question about accent marks on the definite article.  In the paradigm, the
accent mark on TON is acute; in example usage, the accent mark is grave.  I
can think of a practical reason why the accent mark might be grave (because
the following word would most likely have an acute mark, and so the sentence
might flow better in the rise and fall of the pronunciation), but of course
I do not know for sure.


So the questions are:

1) Is the accent mark represented correctly?

2) If so, why is it acute in the one case and grave in the other?

Thanks for your help!

Matthew



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