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Thematic and Athematic Verbs‎
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Abstract

Ancient Greek has a systematic morphological distinction between so-called thematic and athematic verbs which is inherited from Proto-Indo-European. The thematic stem type represents a morphologically open class, the athematic type being obsolete. Ancient Greek also has an alpha-thematic stem type which is innovative and particular to this language.

1. Introduction

Ancient Greek shows an inherited morphologica…

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Eystein Dahl, “Thematic and Athematic Verbs‎”, in: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, General Editor: Georgios K. Giannakis. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-448X_eagll_COM_00000369>
First published online: 2013



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