Time of Participles

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 16 12:42:55 EDT 2002


At 2:42 PM +0000 8/16/02, Mark Wilson wrote:
>Carl:
>
>You wrote:
>
>------
>>For my part I wouldn't even attempt to lay down any principle
>>distinguishing adverbial from substantival participles in this respect.
>------
>
>In some sense, I generally think of verbals as having a temporal
>nature to them, while I think of nouns as have less or no temporal
>nature to them. That I guess is now what I think I was asking. Can
>participles function within the nominal box ONLY, even though
>they are part verb? Or, if a participle is functioning as a
>substantive, are we saying that it MUST do so with its
>accompanying temporal nature?

Are you trying to suggest that hOI PISTEUONTES and hOI PISTEUSANTES and hOI
PEPISTEUKOTES and hOI PISTEUSONTES might be more or less equivalent in
meaning?
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Carl W. Conrad
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