Tuesday, November 29, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- Summary 2, strictly verbs

To recap. I describe the Greek verb system by multiple vectors:

1.                  Aspect

2.                  Voice

3.                  Definiteness

4.                  Certainty

5.                  Transitivity

6.                  Verb class

Each of these vectors has three parts, although under aspect we have two flavors in each part.

1.                  Aspect

a.                   Imperfective

b.                  Progressive

c.                   Perfective

2.                  Voice

a.                   Executive

b.                  Passive

c.                   Base

3.                  Definiteness

a.                   Conjugation

b.                  Personal gerundive

c.                   Impersonal gerundive

4.                  Certainty

a.                   Indicative

b.                  Oblique

c.                   Epistemic

5.                  Transitivity

a.                   Transitive

b.                  Ergative (intransitive imperfective or perfective in executive or base voice)

c.                   Intransitive (passive voice)

6.                  Verb class

a.                   -mi

b.                  -mai

c.                   non-mai, some of which drop vowels (either 1st or 2nd syllable of root), and -mai verbs that are actually suppletives

The flavors of aspect are eventive and conceptual.

Some verbal vectors require a specific structure, as well as specific morphology:

1.                  Ergative

2.                  Passive

3.                  Anti-passive

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