OUSIN in Phil 1:1
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Mar 11 06:33:27 EST 2001
At 8:20 PM -0500 3/10/01, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
>Ken Smith wrote;
>
><<<Actually, Greek participles don't have person -- so the correct parsing
>is "Present Active Participle, Masculine Plural Dative", without any
>reference to person.>>>>
>
>Technically verbs "to be" (EIMI) do not have voice so I would simply list
>this one as "present participle, masculine, dative, plural of EIMI.
>Interestingly the present of EIMI uses what we usually call active endings,
>the imperfect uses a mixture of what we call middle and active, and the
>future uses what we usually call middle endings.
To carry that a bit further, EIMI is a verb in transition; in Homer only
the future (ESSOMAI) is middle; in Koine its half active and half middle;
in modern Greek it's all middle (EIMAI, HMOUN, KTL.).
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
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