From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 11 1995 - 11:54:26 EST
At 8:01 AM 12/11/95, Richard Lindeman wrote:
>I have noted that there appears to be a merging or mixing of some
>categories in uses of participles. Forinstance, many participles it
>seems, when *following* a transitive verb, can be translated just as if
>they were periphrastic. Even though the copulative verb is absent, it
>seems as if a transitive verb within itself carries the force of the
>verb eimi. I have difficulty classifying all of these participles as
>being circumstantial.
>
>It also seems that when the participle *follows* a verb it is
>associated with that this participle often seems to have the impact of
>"supplementing" the meaning of that verb. I am tempted at such times
>to call the participle supplementary instead of circumstantial. In
>contrast, when the participle *precedes* the verb that it is
>associated with it has the impact of "anticipating" the meaning of that
>verb.
I wish you'd offer us some examples of what you mean. I assume that you are
going beyond the conventional distinction of three kinds of participial
usage as:
(1) adverbial: POREUOMENOI TAUTA DIELOGOUMEQA, "As we traveled, we
discussed these things."
(2) adjectival: TWi FILWi TWi SUN EMOI POREUOMENWi TAUTA EIPON, "I
told these things to my friend who was walking with me."
(3) nominal: TWi POREUOMENWi TAUTA DIHGHSAMHN, "I explained these
things to the traveler."
I'm wondering if you are referring to the usage (which I would not
characterize as periphrastic) of a noun/pronoun + participle as normal
indirect discourse with a verb of perception:
OIDA SE TAUTA PEPOIHKOTA, "I know that you have done these things."
HKOUSA SOU SOFOU ONTOS, "I heard that you were clever." (more idioma-
tically, HKOUSA SOU hWS SOFOS HSQA)
KATA PANTA hWS DEISIDAIMONSTEROUS hUMAS [scil. ONTAS] QEWRW (Acts
17:22), "I see that in every way you are especially reverent"
If it is something DIFFERENT from these usages, give us some examples.
Carl W. Conrad
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