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Participle: Leluka medio-passive
Leluka medio-passive is a participle topic in Koine (biblical) Greek. This page gathers its forms, paradigms, and function, drawn from the lessons of Reading Greek Deeply.
MorphologyParticiple – Leluka medio-passive
- These forms combine the Leluka reduplication with the med-psv ptcp endings (see 20.3.3.1), e.g. (masc) δεδεμέν-ος/ου, (fem) δεδεμέν-η/ης, (neut) δεδεμέν-ον/ου
| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative singular | δεδεμέν-ος | δεδεμέν-η | δεδεμέν-ον |
| Genitive singular | δεδεμέν-ου | δεδεμέν-ης | δεδεμέν-ου |
| Dative singular | δεδεμέν-ῳ | δεδεμέν-ῃ | δεδεμέν-ῳ |
| Accusative singular | δεδεμέν-ον | δεδεμέν-ην | δεδεμέν-ον |
| Nominative plural | δεδεμέν-οι | δεδεμέν-αι | δεδεμέν-α |
| Genitive plural | δεδεμέν-ων | δεδεμέν-ων | δεδεμέν-ων |
| Dative plural | δεδεμέν-οις | δεδεμέν-αις | δεδεμέν-οις |
| Accusative plural | δεδεμέν-ους | δεδεμέν-ας | δεδεμέν-α |
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SemanticsParticiple – Leluka medio-passive (stative use)
Participles in the Leluka medio-passive often refer to a state. One of the most common verbs in this pattern is γράφω, which is γεγραμμένος in the medio-passive Leluka participle. This refers to something that is in the state of having been written. Let’s see how this works in more detail. The verb γράφω normally has an agent that writes something. This verb will often receive a result perfect reading in Leluka, which means that there are two parts to the event, a causing event and a resulting state. The result is that something has been written. Because the medio-passive deletes the agent who does the writing, the initial causing event is deleted along with it. Without this causing event, only the thing written is referred to, and this entity is in a result state, namely the state of having been written. In this way, Leluka and the medio-passive can combine to convert a verb that is normally interpreted as a result perfect into a participle that refers only to a state.
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