[B-Greek] Predicate Adjective Participles
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 26 14:25:39 EDT 2005
Elizabeth:
I was only partly able to follow your concern.
(Sorry!) I do have this follow up. Can you give me a
list of recommended Descriptive Koine Greek Language
books (Grammar books?) that you highly recommend.
Mitch Larramore
--- Elizabeth Kline <kline-dekooning at earthlink.net>
wrote:
>
> On Aug 26, 2005, at 8:56 AM, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>
> > What is it in the nature of a
> > participle that would restrict its use as a
> predicate adjective?
>
> Syntax in natural languages is not calculus but
> human behavior. This
> is a fundamental stumbling block to many would be
> students of Ancient
> Greek who learned a list of rules from their
> textbooks and now want
> to know why the rules work or don't work. A question
> like this is a
> by product of reading language textbooks written by
> non-lingutsts.
>
> What is required here is to start over from the
> beginning approaching
> the language from the perspective of descriptive
> linguistics.
>
>
> Elizabeth Kline
>
>
>
>
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