American Philological Association
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 252
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of these six forms ? the diphthong ? is as yet fully identified with i. Three others, the vowel v and the diphthongs 01, i/i, are uniformly distinguished from it, while the remaining two, r) and -y, though clearly on the way toward an e-sound, have not yet reached that goal. But the manuscript gives similar testimony. in regard to other prominent features of the modern Greek pronunciation; so as to the sounds of of and ef, for the diphthongs a, ev, when followed by surds; and probably also the sounds av and ev for the same diphthongs when followed by sonants. So too, as to the medial sounds for the smooth mutes, K, T, where they follow a nasal. I say nothing as to the spirant sounds of the middle mutes, for in regard to these the testimony of the manuscript can hardly be regarded as decisive. But leaving these out of the account, the differences indicated between the pronunciation of the tenth century and that of the nineteenth are extensive and important. How then can it be said (as Mr. Ellis in effect says) that there is no material difference between the pronunciation of the second century and that of the nineteenth ? IV.? On the Substantive Use of the G-reek Participle. By W. A. STEVENS, PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN DENISON UNIVERSITY, GRANVILLE, O. The Greeks were preeminently 0iAop;Yoxoi, ? inclined to the use of the participle. Its constant employment in so great a variety of applications is one of the most striking peculiarities of their language. Any contribution, however slight, to a clearer exhibition of its syntactical relations may reasonably claim the attention of the classical scholar, as well as of the general student of language. This paper is designed to call attention to the large number of cases in which the participle is employed with a more or less clearly...