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by Nathan Nadeau
April 27th, 2021, 7:33 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Question concerning accentuation in contract verbs
Replies: 3
Views: 8324

Re: Question concerning accentuation in contract verbs

Stephen, Thanks for that clear explanation. I was just overthinking (and overlooking) apparently a rather simple morphological observation. This is very helpful Heinrich von Siebenthal has a chart in his Ancient Greek Grammar on uncontracted conjugation of contract verbs, which was helpful to clarif...
by Nathan Nadeau
April 26th, 2021, 8:59 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Question concerning accentuation in contract verbs
Replies: 3
Views: 8324

Re: Question concerning accentuation in contract verbs

By the way, here's what I've concluded: 1. Contract verbs: contracted syllables are accented if either contracting syllable was accented pre-contraction. i: if contract accent is on the penult or antepenult, it follows general rules. ii: if contract accent is on the ultima, it will always be circumf...
by Nathan Nadeau
April 26th, 2021, 11:21 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Question concerning accentuation in contract verbs
Replies: 3
Views: 8324

Question concerning accentuation in contract verbs

Hi all, I created an account to ask this question, as I have been trying to figure it out; it concerns contract verb accentuation in the imperfect. In multiple sources, it is clarified that if the accent of a contract verb is not on the contracting syllables, it's unaffected by contact rules (which ...

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