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The history of Greek '*πίφρημι'.
- Source :
- Glotta; Apr2020, Vol. 96 Issue 1, p299-327, 29p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- After a survey of all the attestations, until Roman times, of the lexeme listed as either -πίφρημι or -φρέω in the reference dictionaries of Ancient Greek, it is argued that the conventional explanation of this verb, which revolves around the aorist of προ-ίημι, needs to be revisited and refined. Contrary to widespread opinion, forms pointing to a present stem -φρεε/ο- and a sigmatic aorist are not to be dismissed as corrupt, secondary, or later than forms belonging to a κ-aorist. The pivot form of the entire system must have been the 1sg. aorist subjunctive, from where a new 'stem' containing the element -φρ-° first spread into the future; two parallel and competing aorist-stem and present-stem formations were then formed on this basis, with developments in both cases following predictable pathways of intraparadigmatic analogy but excluding a single line of descent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GREEK history
LEXEME
ANALOGY
VERBS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00171298
- Volume :
- 96
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Glotta
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 142777282
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.13109/glot.2020.96.1.299