[B-Greek] Finding Verbal Roots (more on rules and paradigms)

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 16 21:48:50 EDT 2008


The best resource that lists NT verbal roots is probably Mounce's own
Morphology of Biblical Greek.  I think introducing the concept of roots and
stems (note Mounce himself is quick to point out the difference) is very important.
It's one of the things that makes Greek fun. 

--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Kenneth Litwak <javajedi2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Kenneth Litwak <javajedi2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] Finding Verbal Roots (more on rules and paradigms)
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 4:13 PM

   One of the things that Mounce (BBG) emphasizes is verbal roots.  He asserts
that the notion of "irregular" forms is wrong. Rather, the forms of a
verb are modifications of the verbal root. Fine. The question is, where do we
find verbal roots for every verb?  He talks about this concept in relation to
Second Aorist verbs.  He shows the root for EIPON, with a digamma.  I'm not
sure how much value there is in telling a student, "You can understand how
the second aorist of LEGW is formed by knowing this root, which contains a
letter we never use."  For other verbs, like EIDON, he does not even give
the root. If knowing the root is so important, where would a student go to find
a list of them?  I never learned about this in Beginning Greek, but since
I'm teaching out of BBG, I need to be able to do something more than wave my
hands and say "these are important."  I need a resource for students
to use or I need to skip the topic. Anyone who teaches Greek in
 favor of skipping the topic of verb roots?  Thanks.


Ken



      
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