[B-Greek] Mk 5:8 voc or nom?

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Sun Dec 5 15:25:53 EST 2004


On Dec 5, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>> Vocative is correct. It is important to keep in mind that neuter nouns
>> have the same form in the nominative and vocative. Also, you shouldn't
>> think of a vocative as being in apposition to an unexpressed subject,
>> since a vocative is not grammatically related to the rest of the
>> sentence.
>
> One question I'd raise about this is whether there is a vocative form 
> of
> the article; there's no question, of course, that the nominative plural
> with the article is used in place of a vocative, but I'd still wonder
> whether there are any indisputable instances of a singular vocative
> definite article.

That's a good question, Carl. The Accordance GNT-T tags the article 
here as vocative. The displaced GNT has vocative as a variant tag. But 
this is also the case with the articles and the participles they 
substantivize in Rom 2.21-22. I suspect this tagging has to do with 
function more than anything else.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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