PASAN THN PISTIN

Daniel Riaño danielrr at retemail.es
Fri Jan 19 11:01:21 EST 2001


>Actually, I have to confess I was being facetious there; I think that the
>distinction between attributive and predicative positions of the adjective
>is not so simply a matter of what's taught in the U.S. but of traditional
>Greek grammar in most parts of the world;

	The main terminological exception being France, where the 
adjective placed within the article and the noun (Engl. *attributive 
position*) is called *'epith`ete* and the adjective placed outside 
the article and noun (engl. *predicative position*) is called 
*attribute*. There are several, well known restrictions and 
conditions for the placement of a few words like, i.a. "PA=S". [both 
questions in Biraud, Michèle. 1991. La determination du nom en grec 
classique. Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et sciences 
humaines de Nice. Nice]
	As CWC wrote, this syntactical phenomenon is of course a most 
important distinction for whoever is learning Greek.
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Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas
Madrid, España



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