I made a flow diagram for some of the rules I know about accentuation.
By no means do I assume this is exhaustive but I was trying to get the basic concepts down in a diagram.
I would love any feedback you guys have. I would love to hear what Joel the moderator thinks about this. I would imagine with his keen eye for accentuation and his genius in regards to everything IT and computer based logic, he would have something to say.
I think I messed up some of the flow on the verb side…but yeah…I would love any corrections.
I’m trying to keep this flow to one page but I imagine to truly get all the rules I may need to chop it in half.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AncientGreek/comments/hnnmud/accentuation_diagram/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
One issue is that the diagram assumes that all verbs have at least three syllables. How can there be an acute on the antepenultimate if there is no antepenultimate? Among other things, this ignores the contexts where a short ultima results in a circumflex on the penult.
Oh, I just noticed that you had asked for my comment – computers are a living, btw, and I’m no more genius at them than anything else.
I think that it makes a lot of sense to try something like this, but if I were doing it, I would start from Chandler’s "Elements of Greek Accentuation (his short 50-page book), which is set up in a similar sort of rules based format, and turn it into flowcharts, chapter by chapter.
The first two yes/no lines have exceptions: contract verbs don’t always have circumflex on the ultimate (perispome). The imperfect, for example. And there are plenty of nouns that don’t have it in genitive plural.