From: Daniel Ria–o (danielrr@mad.servicom.es)
Date: Sat Jul 10 1999 - 03:52:29 EDT
Carl W. Conrad Wrote:
>>(1) I do believe (but am not prepared at present to document) that the
>>ratio of perfects/aorists is indeed considerably higher in classical
>>narrative Greek than it is in Koine. Probably this is something that
>>HAS been documented, but I can't put my hands on it now.
It has. A very good place to look for data, sound explanations and
bibliography is Duhoux, Yves. "Le verbe grec ancien. ƒlŽments de
morphologie et de syntaxe historiques." Louvain-la-Neuve, 1992. In chapter
9 (pp. 497) you can find the donŽes statistiques:
Aor. Perf./Pl.Perf.
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Ilias 5334 86.27% 849 13.73%
Odyssea 3944 84.89% 702 15.11%
Herodotus. 4900 81.31% 1126 18.69%
Thucydides 4054 89.12% 495 10.88%
Att. Aut. 398 70.19% 169 29.81%
1. data from Il., Od. Th. comes from Schlachter, L. "Statistische
Untersuchungen Ÿber den Gebrauch der Tempora und Modi bei einzelnen
griechischen Schrifstellern (I-III)." *IF* 22, 23, 24 (1907-1908,
1908-1909, 1909): 202-242, 165-204, 189-221.
2. *Att. Aut.* stands for a choix d' auteurs attiques (from V-IV
centuries a.C.) and the collection of data for this selections comes from
Chanet, A.M. "A propos du verbe grec. Questions de frŽcuence (attique
classique)." *Cratyle* 9 (1984): 1-15.
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Daniel Ria–o Rufilanchas
Madrid, Espa–a
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