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The Greek Aspirated Perfect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Roland G. Kent
Roland G. Kent*
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University of Pennsylvania
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Extract

[An argument against Sturtevant's interpretation of the aspiration by laryngeals in the IH personal endings (Lang. 16.179–82); summarized in the last section.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 17 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1941 , pp. 189 - 193
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Copyright © 1941 by the Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Language 16.179–82 (1940).

2 Chr. Bartholomae, Altiranisches Wörterbuch, cols. 1862–3 (1904).

3 H. Reichelt, Awestisches Elementarbuch §42.4; except after spirants.

4 Reichelt, op.cit. §45.

5 Bartholomae, Gdr. d. iran. Philologie 1.84 §151 end.

6 Bartholomae, AiW col. 1863.24–5.

7 W. Caland, GGA 1893.398; cf. 1st pl. pf. didvīšma, to root ṭbaēš-. But H. Pedersen, KZ 39.253 (1906), thought that the aspirate might somehow be an inherited feature of the perfect.

8 Bartholomae, AiW col. 1863.19–20.

9 δέδορκϵν +, ἔοικα -+-, λϵληκώς +, μϵμηκώς, τέηκα, πϵφρίκασι +; ἄνωγα +, ἔοργας +, κϵκληγώς +, ἀνέῳγϵ +, πέπηγϵν +, πϵπληγώς +, ἕρριγα +, τϵτρίγϵι +, πϵφϵυγότϵς +; δϵδουπότος, ἔολπα +, κϵκοπώς, λέλοιπϵν +, δπωπα +, σέσηπϵ. At least two-thirds of these have intransitive or middle meanings, capable of taking an accusative only as ‘inner object’, if at all.

10 K. Meisterhans, Grammatik der attischen Inschriften2 §2.3.d-e. Cf. the writing on the Nicandra inscription of Naxos, and ναχσιος = Nάξιος on other Naxian inscc. Cf. also Sturtevant, Pronunciation of Greek and Latin2 §98.

11 Buck, Comp. Gram. of Greek and Latin §405.

12 An apparent extension of β and γ in some inscriptional dialect-forms may be artificial; cf. Ed. Schwyzer, Griechische Grammatik 772.44–7.

13 For a gathering of the materials and an interpretation by analogical influences, see K. Brugmann and A. Thumb, Griechische Grammatik4 375; Buck, Comp. Gramm. of Greek and Latin §405; Schwyzer, Griech. Gram. 769–72.