Re: [tied] Aorist Endings in Modern Greek Imperfect (was: Stative V

> the 2nd aorist, the zero-graded
> thematic past, also in -on, -es etc, and the sigmatic aorist in liquid
> stems, in which the -s- was replaced by lengthening of the preceding
> vowel. I have seen a Greek textbook on Modern Greek in which both
> these formations were described together as the asigmatic aorist!

It depends on your point of view. It is just confusing to a student of
modern or Classical Greek to say that aorists without -s- are "sigmatic",
even if - to a linguist - they do show the traces of an earlier-s-. So
whereas we might acknowledge Classical esteila (from present stello:) as a
sigmatic aorist, it is no help to benighted students to call it that. So
I'm not surprised Grammar books don't.

Peter