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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