From: Eddie Van Gent (vangent@ihug.co.nz)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 06:05:20 EDT
<x-charset iso-8859-1>Thanks for your reply
You have brought up the subject of weak & strong tenses.
Second tenses seem to be shorter words that the 1st tenses.
In my opinion this might make them "short & to the point " and give the
words more "punch"- a bit like our slang words.
What do your studies reveal to date ?
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From: Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: AKHKOOTAS
> At 9:20 PM -0500 4/28/00, Eddie Van Gent wrote:
> >With a double omicron in this 2nd perfect Acc Pl Masc Ptc what should the
> >Nom Sg be (even though not mentioned in the NT)
>
> The Nom. sg. is AKHKOWS, gen. AKHKOOTOS (Pf 1 sg. AKHKOA, of the type
> called "Attic reduplication" wherein the vowel + consonant is repeated but
> lengthened the second time. Similar: ELHLOUQA (ERCOMAI), OPWPA (hORAW)
> >The reason for wanting to know this is twofold:
> >1) People of the koine era would have known the full morphology
> >2) By knowing the morphology of this irregular participle one would needs
> >also become familiar with the "feel" of the language.
>
> I sometimes wonder whether it's really appropriate to call such a form
> "irregular"--although I know we apply that to any verb that doesn't follow
> the pattern which (by default) has become default. But of course these
> "second perfects"--just like the "second aorists" and "second passives"
are
> really the archaic types that have never gone out of currency because they
> are the standard forms of verbs that are used frequently enough that they
> haven't undergone the leveling process which reduces verbs less-frequently
> used to the standard default pattern. Perhaps we should go back to the old
> fashioned way of distinguishing between "weak" and "strong" forms of the
> verb morphology, although, of course, terminology won't do much to help
> learn things unless the reason for the difference in morphologies is
> understood.
>
>
>
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