[B-Greek] longest word?
Daniel Buck
bucksburg at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 15 11:07:55 EST 2011
On Jan 14, 2011, Carl Conrad wrote:
<<the prototypical ultimate anteantepenult -- a term applicable to any and all
syllables preceding the ntepenult, (ir)regardless of the syllable's quantity.
You may apply it without further ado to συπερκαλιφραγιλιστικεξπιαλιδώσιος with
total confidence that you will not be mislabeling any of those antecedent
syllables. One thing you can be sure of: you need never place an accent on a
prototypical ultimate anteantepenult. Another thing you can be sure of is that
it will never behave outrageously as if it were an enclitic. It is much too
embarrassed at having to suffer forever a tonally neutered existence.>>
Okay, so we can tell by the absence of accents that this is all one word--now.
But how about back before accents, terminal forms, and word division? Are there
other grammatical clues that exclude the possiblility of any spaces in the
character string?
Daniel Buck
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