the predicate position of PAS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jan 19 21:31:33 EST 2001


At 7:53 PM -0500 1/19/01, Moon-Ryul Jung wrote:
>Dear Carl,
>
>When you say that PANTES in PANTES hOI MAQHTAI and hOI MAQHTAI PANTES
>is in a predicate position, do you mean that PANTES is predicate
>to hOI MAQHTAI?
>
>Then, the sense of PANTES hOI MAQATAI would be
>"being all, the disciples", and the sense of
>"hOI MAQATAI PANTES" would be "the disciples, being all".
>If this is right, PANTES here is not a MODIFIER in the sense of
>Iver.

Actually PAS, hAPAS (seems to me there's another one like this) function as
demonstratives: one puts the demonstratives in the predicative position:
hOUTOS hO ANHR or hO ANHR hOUTOS but not hO hOUTOS ANHR. And no, it is not
a modifier in the same way any normal adjective is.

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