GlennDean wrote:I'm working off of "Basics of Biblical Greek" by Mounce. He outlines the infinitive endings in Ch 32 p. 307 (2nd Edition Mounce), and in Ch 32 p. 299 (3rd Edition Mounce)
OK, thanks. I've got the 3d ed. of Mounce, so all my cites are to that.
It is true that p.299 of ch. 32 lays out a chart of infinitive endings that seems complete, but it is not. They are only for the so-called "thematic conjugation."
It is in ch. 34, p. 319 that Mounce introduces the concepts of a "thematic" and an "athematic conjugation" so all the forms prior to that belong to the thematic conjugation. On p. 323, Mounce briefly notes that the aorist infinitive of δίδωμι is δοῦναι. Note the athematic infinitive ending and how it does not fit on his earlier chart on p.299. On p.327 in ch. 35, Mounce lays out the infinitives of δίδωμι with two athematic infinitive endings διδόναι and δοῦναι with the "There are no surprises here." I suspect this note is in reference to the pattern of reduplication, not to the athematic infinitive ending.
You may get the idea from Mounce that athematic = μι verbs, but that's not quite correct because some verbs are thematic in the present but athematic in the aorist, of which γινώσκω and βαίνω are the most prominent.
Croy's first-year Greek textbook mentions the special second aorist forms of γινώσκω and βαίνω in a late chapter, but Mounce's does not. I don't have Mounce's book on morphology; perhaps he deals with these verbs there.
Stephen
Stephen C. Carlson, Ph.D. (Duke)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Theology, Uppsala