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# Sources

The manual is written in our own words. The works below are where its facts were checked. Public-domain grammars are the base. Smyth is cited by section and paraphrased from the Perseus text (CC BY-SA). The classical treebanks under non-commercial terms are counted and never quoted. Each work has a card in the Elamur Research library under its slug, and the chapters that cite it are listed after it.

## Grammars

| work | slug | licence | cited in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Herbert Weir Smyth, *A Greek Grammar for Colleges* (1920), Perseus text | `smyth-1920-greek-grammar-colleges` | the 1920 text public domain; the Perseus edition CC BY-SA, paraphrased only | every chapter, by section |
| William Watson Goodwin, *A Greek Grammar* (1892) | `goodwin-1892-greek-grammar` | public domain | [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/01-script-sounds/)–[9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/09-mi-verbs/), [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/11-cases/) |
| William Watson Goodwin, *Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb* (1890) | `goodwin-1890-syntax-moods-tenses-greek` | public domain | [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/07-verb/), [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/10-nonfinite/), [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/14-subordination/) |
| Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass & Bernhard Gerth, *Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache* (1890–1904) | `kuhner-1890-ausfuhrliche-grammatik-der-griechischen` | public domain | [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/01-script-sounds/)–[5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/05-article/) |
| David B. Monro, *A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect* (1891) | `monro-1891-grammar-homeric-dialect` | public domain | [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/16-dialects/) |
| Henry St John Thackeray, *A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint* (1909) | `thackeray-1909-grammar-old-testament-greek` | public domain | [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/17-koine/) |
| Friedrich Blass, *Grammar of New Testament Greek*, trans. Thackeray (1905) | `blass-1905-grammar-new-testament-greek` | public domain | [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/17-koine/) |
| Ernest DeWitt Burton, *Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek* (1898) | `burton-1898-syntax-moods-tenses-new` | public domain | [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/14-subordination/), [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/17-koine/) |
| F. C. Conybeare & St George Stock, *Selections from the Septuagint* (1905), with its grammar | `conybeare-1905-selections-from-septuagint-according` | public domain | [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/17-koine/) |

**Wanted**: Carl Darling Buck, *Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects* (1910, public domain), for [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/16-dialects/). **Known only by name, no claim rests on it**: J. D. Denniston, *The Greek Particles* (1934, copyrighted), for [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/12-prepositions-particles/).

## Texts

| text | edition | licence | cited in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xenophon, *Anabasis*; Plato, *Apology* | Perseus canonical-greekLit | CC BY-SA 4.0, short quotations | [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/01-script-sounds/)–[5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/05-article/), [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/11-cases/) |
| Homer, *Iliad* 1.1 | — | public domain | [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/15-verse/) |
| The Septuagint (Genesis, Ruth) | UD PTNK and eBible `grcbrent` | CC BY-SA 4.0 (treebank); public domain (Brenton's Greek text) | [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/03-noun/), [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/05-article/), [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/06-pronouns/), [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/10-nonfinite/), [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/13-simple-clause/), [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/17-koine/) |
| Aristotle, *Poetics* 1449a | — | public domain | [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/15-verse/) |

## Treebanks (UD 2.18)

| treebank | what it holds | licence | use | cited in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UD Ancient Greek PTNK | the Septuagint: Genesis and Ruth in the training set | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Mova's Greek measure (train → dev); counts; short quotations | [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/03-noun/), [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/05-article/)–[14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/14-subordination/), [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/17-koine/) |
| UD Ancient Greek Perseus | Homer (6 003 sentences), Sophocles, Herodotus, Hesiod, Diodorus, Aeschylus and others | CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 | counts only | [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/03-noun/), [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/05-article/), [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/13-simple-clause/), [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/16-dialects/) |
| UD Ancient Greek PROIEL | Herodotus, *Histories*; the New Testament | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | counts only | [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/03-noun/), [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/05-article/), [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/13-simple-clause/), [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/14-subordination/), [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/17-koine/) |

## Lexical data

The dictionaries and morphologies held for Greek, with their licences and what Mova may do with each, are listed in [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/18-lexicon/) §6.

- [← previous The lexicon: word formation, compounds, loans and dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/18-lexicon/)
- [↑ back to Ancient Greek (grc) — a reference manual for Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/grc/)
