[b-greek] Re: Participle/Finite Verb

From: clayton stirling bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 12:18:24 EDT


on 07/21/00 4:03 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> Ultimately the positioning of the finite verb and the
> circumstantial participle in hEISET' AGWN is by no means unnatural in Greek.

Thanks Carl,

This is the statement I was looking for. Now if someone else would just
agree with me that AGWN describes a temporally antecedent action leading up
to the action encoded in hEISET' then I would chalk up one hit against the
dogma that temporal circumstantial participles always precede the main verb.

Clay


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