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- March 20th, 2018, 9:03 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Are adverbial participles only nominative?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13765
Re: Are adverbial participles only nominative?
Thank you, Stirling, for your response. Unfortunately, I still do not have a clear understanding of how I should update my way of analyzing the syntactical functions of participles. If you or others have reading suggestions, I would welcome them. As I understand it currently, my approach does not re...
- March 17th, 2018, 5:48 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Are adverbial participles only nominative?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13765
Re: Are adverbial participles only nominative?
My sincere thanks to all who shared in answering my question on this thread! As a result of this discussion, I have learned that participants here have different opinions about the claim in Decker's textbook that "adverbial" participles are almost always nominative. There seems to be agree...
- February 22nd, 2018, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Are adverbial participles only nominative?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13765
Are adverbial participles only nominative?
In Rodney J. Decker's textbook ( Reading Koine Greek [Baker Academic, 2014]), he claims on p. 391 that " Adverbial participles, since they modify the verb and therefore assume the same actor as the nominative-case subject, occur only in the nominative case." He then qualifies this statemen...
- February 22nd, 2018, 12:30 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Introducing Dan Ulrich
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3459
Introducing Dan Ulrich
I have been teaching New Testament studies at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana, USA, since 1996. Bethany is in partnership with Earlham School of Religion, and my students are from both seminaries. Increasingly they take courses from a distance. Our biblical Greek courses are someti...