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Misc. Greek
Different declines and uses
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General Vocab
Undergraduate 3
10/20/2011

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Term
Uses of Demonstrative Pronoun 
Definition

1 - Deitic (points out something either near or removed distance)

2 - Contemptuous (expresses disdain for someone or something)

3 - Anaphoric (refers back to something immediately preceding)

4 - Kataphoric (refers to something following)

Term
Uses of the Adjective 
Definition

1 - Attributive (adjective assigns a quality to the word modified) 

2 - Predicate (adjective makes a statement about the noun it modifies)

3 - Substantival (adjective does not modify a noun, but instead acts like a noun) 

Term
Cases of the Noun
Definition

1 - Nominative (designates the subject of the verb)

2 - Genetive (describe  or denotes possession)

3 - Dative (expresses interest; it denotes the indirect object which is the person (object) to whom or for whom something is done) 

4 - Accusative (receives the verb's actoin as a direct object, thereby limiting the verb) 

5 - Vocative (identifies the person (object) addressed or spoken to)

Term
Uses of the Personal Pronoun 
Definition

1 - As a personal pronoun (anaphoric) (it takes the place of a noun to avoid monotony)

2 - Emphasis (When the nominative pronoun is used to identify the subject, it conveys special stress, often in some kind of contrast) 

3 -  Possession (genetive case of the pronoun denotes ownership)

4 - Attributive (When preceded by the article, any case, gener, or number of αὐτός has the meaning of "the same" 

5 - Intensive (standing in the predicate position and usually translated by some form of "--self," the pronoun αὐτός emphasizes the identity of the word which it modifies.)

Term

Passive Voice Agents

Ultimate Agent 

Definition

 - an intelligent (divine, angelic, human) being directly produces the action

(ὑπό or ἀπό or  παρά + genetive)

Term

Passive Voice Agents

Intermediate Agent

Definition

 - an intelligent being, as a go-between, indirectly produces the verb's action

 

 

 

 

(δίά + genetive) 

Term

Passive Voice Agents

Impersonal Agent

Definition

A thing, object, force, power, etc. produces the verb's actoin


(with or without ἐν + dative or by ἐκ + genetive)

Term

Passive Voice Agents

Unexpressed Agent

Definition
the agent producing the verb's action isn't mentioned, it being left to the context, history, theology, etc., to identify the agent; this is called the theological passive when God is the unnamed agent. 
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