Case form of Participles used as Verb Compliments

atombomb at sirius.com atombomb at sirius.com
Wed Apr 21 16:43:35 EDT 1999


XPICTOC ANECTH!

Re:  *katafilousa* in "She [that's] kissing my feet hasn't stopped
since [the moment] she entered"--

clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:

> Ya know after years of starring at NT Greek participles they still give
> me pause. The problem is the dual function. It just seems like a messy
> way to do things, having a single instance of a single form in a single
> context serving more than one function. 

You don't mean having both an adjectival and a verbal function, just
like the word "having" in your last sentence just quoted above, do you?

ALHQWC ANECTH!

John Burnett, MA (OT)



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