[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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