[B-Greek] The Anarthrous Pre-verbal Predicate Nominative

rcampanaro at comcast.net rcampanaro at comcast.net
Sat Apr 9 18:45:18 EDT 2005


Hi,

I'm new to the list. I'm a Greek student of about five years but haven't had the 
advantage of learning in a classroom setting so I've pretty much been learning 
on my own through books and other resources. I have an issue I was wondering if 
someone could help me out with.  

In Daniel B. Wallace's work, "Greek Grammar Beyond the basics", which I'm sure 
many on this list are familiar with, Wallace indicates that the vast majority of 
anarthrous pre-verbal predicate nominatives are to be taken qualitatively rather 
than definite or indefinite. The ratio is supposedly 80% qualitative, 20% 
definite with a very few being indefinite. I ran a search in Bible Works 6.0 for 
all occurance of this construction but I don't seem to be coming up with the 
same numbers. 

It may well be my criteria is erroneous in some way. The search criteia I'm 
using is as follows:

All nominative singular nouns not preceded by the article and preceding EIMI, 
GINOMAI or HUPARCW

In my query, should I be including plurals as well as singulars and should I be 
including pronouns?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Rob



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