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La distribución de participio concertado y subordinada adverbial en la lengua literaria griega del s. V a. C.

1987; Spanish National Research Council; Volume: 55; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Espanhol

10.3989/emerita.1987.v55.i1.635

1988-8384

M.a Dolores Jiménez,

Classical Antiquity Studies

This paper aims at finding out the rule(s) that determine(s) the distribution of adverbial subordinate clauses and connected circumstantial participles in the Attic literary language of the V century B.C. For this purpose, the relevant instances of both constructions in Soph. O. T. , Thuc. II 1-60 and Pseudo-Xenophon Ath.Pol. are systematically considered. The main conclusion is that a purely mechanical rule governs the choice between both constructions: the circumstantial participle is used when its governing substantive fulfills any given function in the main sentence; on the contrary, the adverbial subordinate clause is limited to the contexts in which its subject cannot be in agreement with any other element of the leading sentence. A number of grammatical conditions specified through the article explain most of the examples in which the general rule does not apply.