Greek and Latin Linguistics

A recent paper by Joshua T. Katz puts forth a new explanation of the morphology of the earliest forms of the active pluperfect in Greek. Building on work by Jay Jasanoff, Katz explains the curious alphathematic endings 1sg. -εα, 2sg. -εαϛ, 3sg. -ει (< -εε) as resting ultimately on changes that arose when Proto-Indo-European secondary desinences were added to dental-final perfect stems, as in (ἐ)πεποίθεα, (ἐ)πεποίθεαϛ, (ἐ)πεποίθει ⟵ *(e-)b^he-b^hóid^h-ṃ, -s, -t, to the root *b^heid^h- ‘trust’.

Conjunction beyond Truth-Function

The Homeric poems admit a set of relatively fixed collocations βῆ δ’ ἴμεναι, βῆ δ’ ἴμεν and βῆ δ’ ἰέναι, which vary in person and number (3rd s. βῆ, 1st s. βῆν, 3rd pl. βάν) and contain either the particle δέ or ῥα, as well as several closely related, less common expressions with other infinitives of verbs of motion: θέειν ‘to run’, ἐλάαν ‘to drive’, and (uncertain) νέεσθαι ‘to go [home]’. The syntactic behavior of the infinitive in these collocations defies explanation in the traditional terms of Greek grammar (cf.

The inscription CEG 28 (Attica, ca. 540-530?) contains the sole example of the dative plural φρασίν in Attic Greek. It occurs in a hexameter, which ends φραϲιν : αλα μενοινον : (= φρασὶν ἄλλα μενοινῶν). It is clear that this dative plural must be the older form of the n-stem φρήν, showing as it does the expected vocalization of the zero grade, *-ṇ-si. Elsewhere in Attic, and indeed almost everywhere else in Greek, it has been analogically replaced by φρεσί. However, scholars have noted that it is not isolated: φρασί occurs twice in Pindar (P.4.219, N.

The aim of this contribution is to study the morphological way in which Lycian personal names are integrated in Greek. Contact between Lycians and Greeks began early within the context of commercial and cultural exchange despite the alignment of Lycia with Persia until 334 BCE. From the 5^th century BCE onward this contact is attested by bilingual and trilingual (Greek-Lycian-Aramaic) inscriptions and by the adaptation of Lycian personal names in Greek inscriptions.