[B-Greek] Question concerning accents
Nikolaos Adamou
ntgreekreader at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 08:12:16 EST 2011
Accentuation rules is the same for all parts of speech.
Learn accentuation in ten simple lessons in
http://www.polytoniko.org/mathi.php?newlang=en
The lessons are in Greek and have a lot of electronic test
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Robert Stump <robertstump at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to thank everyone again for the sage advice I've received. As
> I mentioned before I am working through Rainey's inductive NT Method.
> And now I am now also supplementing with Machen's Begginer's Greek.
>
> Before working through Machen's lesson on accents I had largely copied
> them by rote, often overlooked them, and never gave them much thought.
> Having worked through it, I think I am getting the idea, but I now
> have questions for which I could not find answers elsewhere.
>
> 1) Do participles follow the pattern of verbs (that is persistence
> toward the antepenult), or the pattern of nouns (persistence toward
> the Nom. Sing.'s accent).
>
> 2)Does a compound verb push its accent into the preposition? I have
> seen KATELABEN accented on the antepenult in John 1:5, but I thought
> this might be caused by the augment and so only to appear to fall back
> into the preposition. I thought this might be confirmed by KATABAINON
> being accented on the penult in 1:32, but not knowing the answer to my
> first question I couldn't answer the second.
>
> 3)Is there something special about FANEROQH in John 1:31? I would
> have thought it would take an accute on the penult, but the text shows
> instead circumflex on the ultima.
>
> 4)I noticed that the accute ultima does not change to a grave in a
> number of cases when followed by an enclitic. Is this a hard fast
> rule?
>
> 5)Why do a number of words have mutliple accents? (hOUTOS, circumflex
> penult, accute ultima, and EKEINOS, in 1:38 when followed by the
> enclitic MOI, but not in 1:8 without the enclitic). I was thinking
> hOUTOS was likely a compound which would be some sort of explanation,
> but I can't make sense of EKEINOS.
>
> Per sanguine agni,
> Robert Stump
> Seminarian
> FL, USA
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