Re: CHAT Graeca sine flexione (was: Greek plosives)

Philip Newton wrote:
> On 2/3/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>
>>ek/eks means "out of", not just "from" - and in the modern language its
>>'kse'.
>
>
> And is a bound morpheme, AFAIK -- it only appears as a prefix, not as
> a separate word.
Yes - you're right. But it is derived from ancient eks-   :)

On checking I see there are only a few simple prepositions in MG, and
all, as we know, govern the accusative. the list i have is:
se (s') = in, at, to <-- AG _es_ (eis)
apo (ap') = from, of
me (m') = with, by <-- AG meta
gia /ja/ = for, about <-- AG dia
kata = towards, according to
pros = towards
anti = instead of
os = up to, till
xoris = without
dixos = without

(Where no AG form is given, the word is the same in both languages -
though often not pronounced the same)

The modern language seems to rely a lot on combinations of adverb +
preposition to convey more specific meanings.

I think that one of the fundamental things that would need to be decided
in a "Graeca sine flexione" is whether the 'Graeca' is (essentially)
ancient or modern.

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