Re: EAK update

On 9/19/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just to let those interested know that pronouns have now appeared in all
> their glory   :)
Yay!

> http://www.carolandray.plus.com/EAK/Pronouns.html
Some comments.

- "like 1st & adjectives": should be "like 1st & _2nd declension_
adjectives", _vel sim_?

- "in this use the article was often united to αὐτός in a contracted
form": should that be αὑτός with rough breathing over the upsilon?

- "(rather like the to the modern Chinese use of -men)": I think there
are either a word or two too many, or a word or two missing.

- is there information about possessive pronouns or possessive
adjectives, as in "my book"? I'm particularly curious whether there is
a specific form for when the owner is the same as the subject, either
for third person only (as in some languages, which can distinguish
between "he went to his [own] house" and "he went to his [some other
person's] house") or for all persons (as in Russian with "svoy", which
seems odd to me since I'm not used to it -- I expect something like "I
went to my house" and not "I went to self's house"). Given that eautó
is a common reflexive pronoun for all persons and numbers, perhaps EAK
will have something like that for "reflexive" possessive adjectives as
well?

- "he seems to wished to distinguish": presumably "he seems to _have_
wished to distinguish" or "_it_ seems _he_ wished to distinguish"?

- "τοιὀσδε": a strange occurrence of a breathing on the second
syllable; presumably meant to be an accent, τοιόσδε?

- why both ενθάδε and εντούθα for "here"? Is there a difference in
meaning and/or usage?

- are there forms for "...ever"? For example, Modern Greek has ό,τι
"whatever", όπου "wherever", όποτε "whenever", όσο "however many",
όπως "however, in whichever way", όποιος "whoever", and όποιο
"whichever (adj.)", to which -δήποτε can be added for emphasis
(οτιδήποτε, οποιοδήποτε etc.).

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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