[B-Greek] Predicate Adjective Participles

Cirk Bejnar eluchil404 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 26 13:04:13 EDT 2005


--- Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What is it in the nature of a
> participle that would restrict its use as a
> predicate adjective?
> 
> Mitch Larramore
> Sugar Land, Texas

I can think of a number of possibilities.  The most
important is probably that, lacking the definite
article (being anarthous), predicate adjective
participles look just like adverbial/circumstantial
participles and could easily be classed with them. 
Could not the supplementary participle fall into this
category?

Also note that many participles retain their verbal
'feel' so that the combination of the copula and a
participle can often be analyzed as a "compound 
tense" with a unified force.  This is ubiquitous in
English and regular in some tenses (as the pluperfect)
of Greek.

Yours in His Grace,
Cirk R. Bejnar


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