Re: Contract verbs

Mary L B Pendergraft (pender@wfu.edu)
Sat, 08 Nov 1997 07:23:46 -0500

At 08:25 PM 11/7/97 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote:
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>1. How can you look at a verb form in the GNT, say, LALW, and know that you
>should look it up in the dictionary as LALEW? Is there any way?

This is one place where the accent helps. With acute on the alpha, it'd be
LALW; with circumflex on omega, LALEW.

>3. Robertson points out that -AW and -EW endings are sometimes confused in
>the GNT. Is this worth pointing out to beginners?
I think it may be, perhaps in a footnote. Otherwise, someone can spend
time and anxiety wondering what's going on with an unexpected form.

Mary

Mary Pendergraft
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC 27109 910-759-5331 pender@wfu.edu