[B-Greek] Re: Adverbial participles - Culy
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Mon Sep 5 17:46:23 EDT 2005
I worked carefully through Marty Culy's article a couple years ago
and did not find it persuasive. I think that Kelton's simple
statement is right on target, as is also Randall's judgment of
Mitch's facility with dealing with participles.
On Sep 5, 2005, at 12:53 PM, kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:
> No, most of your participles that are adverbial are nominative, but
> you still will have some in other cases.
>
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> Kelton Graham
> KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net
>
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>
>
>> Acts 22:17 contains
>>
>> EGENETO DE MOI hUPOSTREYANTI EIS IEROUSALHM KAI
>> PROSEUCOMENOU MOU EN TWi hIERWi GENESQAI ME EN
>> EKESTASEI
>>
>> I read an article by a Dr. Culy on Adverbial
>> participles. At first read, it would appear he teaches
>> that adverbial participles will be in the nominative
>> case and oblique case participles will be adjectival
>> (a few exceptions to this, such as gen. absolutes and
>> when an infinitive is involved). He then gives the
>> above passage as an example, saying that
>> hUPOSTREYANTI, since it is dative, is adjectival.
>> However, he then says, it is appropriate to translate
>> it adverbially! What point is there to insisting upon
>> oblique case participles functioning adjectivally but
>> may or should be at times translated adverbially? Is
>> there general agreement that adverbial participles
>> (with above noted exceptions) MUST be in the
>> nominative case.
>>
>>
>> Mitch Larramore
>> Sugar Land, Texas
>>
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Carl W. Conrad
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