[B-Greek] Jn. 8:40

Barbara D. Colt babc2 at comcast.net
Tue Nov 23 14:54:53 EST 2004



On 23 Nov 2004 at 13:20, Carl W. Conrad wrote:


> At 12:31 PM -0500 11/23/04, Minton, Ron wrote:
> >Yes, Carl, this is what I was examining.  I wondered if there was a
> >specific name to the situation in which the nom. masc. sing. rel. prn can
> >take a first, second, or third person verb.
> 
> Would it leave some sense of incompleteness to accept that there is no name
> for this because it is relatively rare and by no means unintelligible? Dan
> Wallace has gone quite far enough in creating new grammatical tags to refer
> to constructions that serve no function other than assisting translation
> into English. I guess that's OK if one learns Greek primarily in order to
> translate it into English rather than in order to read and understand it.
> 
What is it that you want to give a special name to?  The case of the 
relative pronoun is determined by its job in the clause, but its person 
and number must agree with the antecedent.  What's the problem?

Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at comcast.net
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