Greek Grammar

Herbert Weir Smyth, Gordon M. Messing

Harvard University Press, 1984 - Foreign Language Study - 784 pages

Sponsored by the Department of Classics of Harvard University, a revised edition of the late Professor Smyth's A Greek Grammar for Colleges is now available. All necessary corrections have been made, and the book retains the form which has long made it the most complete and valuable work of its kind. In this descriptive grammar the author offers a treatment of Greek syntax which is exceptionally rich as well subtle and varied.

Contents

• Advanced Works on Grammar and Dialects: 5
• Consonants and their Divisions: 12
• Euphony of Vowels: 18
• Euphony of Consonants: 24
• Final Consonants: 33
• Syllables and their Quantity: 40
• DECLENSION OF SUBSTANTIVES: 48
• Dental Stems: 61
• Irregular Declension: 71
• DECLENSION OF PRONOUNS: 90
• NUMERALS: 102
• VERBS: 106
• Present and Imperfect: 109
• Augment: 144
• Tensesuffixes Thematic Vowel: 150
• Periphrastic Tenses: 156
• Formation of Tensesystems: 157
• 10: 170
• 12: 177
• 183202: 184
• First and Second Aorist Passive: 195
• Perfect and Pluperfect Middle: 201
• Peculiarities in the Use of Voiceforms: 217
• Primary and Secondary Stems: 226
• Formation of Adjectives: 236
• Denominative Verbs: 245
• Accent of Compounds Meaning of Compounds: 255
• the Nominative: 261
• 2433: 266
• Peculiarities in the Use of Number Gender Person: 271
• 3436: 274
• Adverbs: 278
• Pronouns: 294
• VOCATIVE: 312
• 41 42: 315
• Genitive Subjective and Objective: 318
• Subject and Predicate Noun with Infinitive: 324
• Free Uses: 328
• 44: 331
• Genitive with Adverbs: 335
• Instrumental Dative: 346
• Dative with Compound Verbs: 353
• Free Uses of the Accusative: 360
• Variation: 369
• Improper Prepositions: 388
• THE MOODS 398412: 398
• 312: 412
• Infinitive with the Article: 417
• Tenses of the Indicative: 421
• THE PARTICIPLE: 454
• Supplementary Participle: 465
• Verbs taking either the Participle or the Infinitive: 474
• SUMMARY OF THE FORMS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES: 481
• SYNTAX OF THE COMPLEX SENTENCE: 487
• Assimilation of Moods: 489
• OBJECT CLAUSES: 496
• CAUSAL CLAUSES: 503
• PROVISO CLAUSES WITH ἐφ ᾧ ἐφ ᾧτε: 512
• Present and Past Unreal Conditions: 518
• Less Vivid Future Conditions: 526
• Two or More Protases or Apodoses in One Sentence: 536
• Temporal Clauses referring to the Future: 543
• Summary of the Constructions of ews so long as and until: 548
• Similes and Comparisons: 559
• Other Peculiarities of Relative Clauses: 571
• Dependent Statements with or or s: 581
• INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES: 596
• EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES: 606
• οὐ and μή with the Participle: 608
• ob and μh with Substantives and Adjectives used Substantively: 619
• μ où with the Participle depending on Negatived Verbs: 625
• General View: 631
• FIGURES: 671
• List of Verbs: 684
• English Index: 723
• 45 46: 732
• Greek Index: 757
• 337353: 773

Bibliographic information

• Title: Greek Grammar; Greek series for colleges and schools
• Authors: Herbert Weir Smyth, Gordon M. Messing
• Editor: Gordon M. Messing
• Compiled by: Gordon M. Messing
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1984
• ISBN: 0674362500, 9780674362505
• Length: 784 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages; Foreign Language Study / Greek (Modern); History / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Foreign Language Study / General; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical