Question about Greek contracted futures

[Nathan Hill]

Dear Colleagues,

My understanding of Greek contracted verbs is that they reflect a lost *-s-
or *-j- (-j- in contracted presents); so, take a contracted future φανῶ <
*φανέσω, right? But then why are most contracted futures in -l or -n stems?
(Guess: there is something about the morphology of -l and -n stem presents
that means a contracted future will always look different form the present,
e.g. the ί in φαίνω, so there is no need to analogically restore the σ as
we do for instance in λύσω)

I would be very grateful for references to relevant literature.

many thanks,
Nathan

Dr Nathan W. Hill
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics
Lecturer in Tibetan and Linguistics (on leave)
Department of China & Inner Asia and Department of Linguistics
SOAS, University of London
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