[B-Greek] voice as lexically distinct

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 07:27:00 EDT 2009


fWIW:
form the blog Carl mentioned:
>At one point that I cannot reference because I do not have the book near mean, it sounded like Allan makes the claim that internally, the ancient Greeks would have viewed middle morphology as lexically distinct from active morphology - i.e. derivationally, as I suggested might work previously.

This doesn’t mean that in a printed lexicon I would prefer to have
separate forms for all actives, middles, and passives*, but it does
mean that in my morphological database I will treat them as such.>

That is how we teach Greek verbs in our SXOLH. Students learn their
first MESH and PAQHTIKH
verbs as separate vocab items. It works nice and feels much better
psychologically.
ERXOY KAI IDE

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