[B-Greek] Re: 2nd aorsit of ERCHOMAI FOLLOW UP

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 31 11:48:33 EST 2004


At 8:15 AM -0800 3/31/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>Carl:
>
>Are you saying the so called deponent verbs are only
>remain deponent in a given root? And, are you saying,
>if a verb has multiple roots, one root (of verb X) may
>exhibit "deponent" characteristics while other roots
>(of verb X) are not at all deponent?

What I am saying is that it behooves the serious student of Greek to learn
the principal parts of irregular verbs, which is to say, of all verbs whose
future, aorist, perfect active, perfect middle, and aorist "passive"
morphoparadigms are not readily predictable from the present stem. This may
well include some forms that derive from a root differing from the root
from which the present stem is derived, and it may well include also some
forms that appear in a "voice" morphoparadigm different from that in which
the present stem is found. Thus:

	ERCOMAI, ELEUSOMAI, HLQON, ELHLUQA, _____, _______
	hORAW, OYOMAI, EIDON, hEWRAKA, hEWRAMAI, WFQHN

from which you see that you must use the middle for the future, the active
for the aorist and perfect of ERCOMAI, you must use the middle of a
different root for the future, the active of still yet another different
root for the aorist, etc., etc. My own listing of irregular verbs is at


	http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Docs/IrregularVerbsGNT.pdf

I would rather dispense altogether with the silly term, "deponent,"
although I am well aware that many, perhaps most, students of Greek will
continue to use it out of sheer reverence for tradition. My best advice on
voice at this time is at:
		http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Docs/UndAncGrkVc.pdf


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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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