From: Micheal Palmer (mwpalmer@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jun 15 1998 - 00:42:45 EDT
At 3:34 AM -0000 6/15/98, Tolliver Family wrote:
>auton is accusative because this is an example of indirect speech ,
>accusative plus infinitive. It happened that....
>
Actually, it would be accusative whether or not it were not indirect
discourse. AUTON is accusative because (1) it is the subject of the
infinitive PARAPOREUESQAI and (2) it is *not* coreferential with the
subject of the governing main verb (EGENTETO).
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