[B-Greek] Best book/appendix for Comprehensive Chart of Forms?
Louis Sorenson
llsorenson at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 25 09:41:50 EDT 2009
I just pulled Moulton's Grammar of New Testament Greek, Vol II. Accidence and Word Formation off the shelf. When I came back into Greek after a hiatus of 15 years, Moulton's "List of Verbs" was in a format that gave me a good overview of a verb and let me get a grasp on verbs without having each verb declined. (Moulton did not take the place of a comprehensive chart of paradigms.)
I have scanned the 1st four pages into a pdf so those unfamiliar with Moulton's format can take a peek at it. It can be found at http://www.letsreadgreek.com/resources/moulton_listofverbs.pdf .
Some of the features in Moulton are as follows:
Regular verbs in the Present only are not listed
Regular contract verbs are not listed
Regular verbs in -UW -AZW -IZW which show no fut. act. or middle are not listed.
All verbs are in the simplex (with no preposition)
It gives 5 columns: Present, Strong Aorist, Weak Aorist, Future, Perfect.
Forms for each tense which exist are listed only in the 1st person singular under the appropriate tense column
The imperfect, if it exists is listed under the present
Middle forms if present are listed under the appropriate tense column
The Greek period of each verb is flagged
The Morphological class of each verb is listed.
A list of prepositions that adhere to it are listed below each verb
(e.g. Comp AN-, AP- DI- EX-....)
The verbal adjective(s) associated with the noun.
Notes on special forms, etc.
Alas- infinitives are not listed.
Mounce's MBG also provides
this information, but not in an accessible comprehensive form. I get lost in Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek. You have to know what class a verb is first, or look in the index to find where the verb is listed. (I don't own a digital Libronix(?) version of MBG). While I
like a book format, I do a lot of online reading also. I had tried to
get zHubert to give an overview of verbs in this format. I'm sure at
some point, some online Bible engines will also provide such a overview
as it would be so easy to implement. I know that someone is currently compiling such an appendix. But a basic appendix of forms that is concise but comprehensive is still needed - or I have not found it yet.
Louis Sorenson
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> From: Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com>
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> What I am looking for is not just a verb paradigm chart, but a Noun, Number, Adjective, Pronouns, Verb insert which is the chart a person could use for the next 10 years of their study of Koine Greek.
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> I'm sure many other still have input to give on this subject. I have till next Wednesday to tell my students "Buy this book". What should I tell them?
> Thanks again.
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> Louis Sorenson
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