Re: EAK prepositions

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 20:25:56 +0100, R A Brown wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all those interested,
>>
>>The page on EAK prepositions is now up & running:
>>http://www.carolandray.plus.com/EAK/Prepositions.html
>
>
> Nice and sensible.  However, I'd expect the opposite sequence
> in combinations such as επ' εις 'onto', namely εις επί.
> However, Peanou's choice may be motivated by the consideration
> that the second preposition stands in for the case ending of
> the noun, explaining why it is closer to the noun.
It was rather the consideration that in the ancient language the
sequence is always ἐπεισ- when prefixed to a verb. What he has done is
to let the prefix, so to speak, stand on its own two feet as a separate
entity (a phrasal preposition), and write it as its two elements. I have
it on good authority that he did contemplate writing it as one word,
επεις, but decided to write the two elements separately.

Having chosen and adapted the existing ancient combos, it then appeared
that εις and εκ did, as you say, stand in as a quasi-case marker.

>>I have also been working on EAK verbs, but this has thrown up a few
>>problems. Those with any knowledge of the somewhat complex ancient Greek
>>verb system will, I'm sure, not be surprised.
>
> Sure.  The ancient Greek verb system is indeed fiendishly complex.
Yep - I think it's now the 3rd (or is 4th?) revision of the verb page
that I'm working on.

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