[B-Greek] Adverbial participle's case

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Mon Aug 22 11:29:04 EDT 2005


On Aug 22, 2005, at 11:23 AM, kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:

> The case of a participle are found by their inflectional endings,  
> for example in the nominative case.
> WN, OUSA, OV mas, feminine, nueter [nominative]
> or
> SAS, SASA, SAN
>
> Usually your nominative participles are the adverbial ones,  
> however, it does not have to be nominative, but normally they are.

I agree that they are more commonly nominative than not, but it shoud  
be noted that nominative participles don't need to be circumstantial;  
they may be adjectival or substantival, e.g. IWANNHS hO BAPTIZWN


> -------------- Original message --------------
>
>> What determines the CASE of an Adverbial participle?
>>
>> Mitch Larramore
>> Sugar Land, Texas


Carl W. Conrad
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