A question about Greek or Latin

John F. Emery jfemery at ucdavis.edu
Wed Feb 21 06:27:19 UTC 2001


>Dear all
>   I need a useful piece of information about causative and passive verbs
>formations of GREEK or LATIN. I have learned SANSKRIT and was wondering
>wheter Greek and Latin have the same verbs formation of SANSKRIT. It uses a
>causative or passive verb, which consists of causative or passive affixes
>and verb stems, for the causative or passive expression. If anyone knows a
>good knowledge of either of them, would you please tell me about it
>breifly?

Andrew Sihler's New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, covers
this somewhat.  686 pages (January 1995)
                            Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0195083458

John F. Emery
UC Davis
Section of Plant Biology
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Davis, CA 95616



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