Except that in the case of Mark's hHKASI, it can hardly be argued either
that we are dealing with "a verb in the perfect" or a "perfect stem" that
"assumes aoristic endings." What we have is a present stem that assumes a
perfect ending. I still don't see a case here for hHKASI as a "kappa
aorist." If the form we were confronting were hHKAN, I might be a bit more
open-minded.
I should add that I can readily understand how a -KA perfect tense might be
conjugated with perfect tense endings or even how a -KA aorist might be
conjugated with perfect tense endings. After all, it is true that the
perfect and aorist tenses are assimilating in the Hellenistic era. But in
this case we are dealing with a present stem in -K- that is being said to
be a -KA- aorist form even though it has a perfect tense ending.
Steady there, Jim ...
Carl W. Conrad
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