[B-Greek] moulton pages
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 10:26:36 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.
You'll need to add pp 197, 200, 211, et al. for infinitives.
If you just listed the Moulton irregular you would have 44 pp
If you do the whole verb discussion, it grows to 85. These can be
put on double sided, 2p/side, at 11 or 21 pages.
However, students will find that fleshed out tables allow easier drilling,
finding, and using as a language.
The charts still put one in a fairly distracting analytical mode in order to
generate the desired forms.
And again, some basic, central verbs to the language may be left out,
and unattested tenses and moods may be left out.
So it needs to be redone for a newer pedagogy. .
But it is a great, concise start.
And he has χρᾶσαι correct for 'you are using' !
You are going to finish PDF-ing these?
blessings
Randall
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