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On Smyth, §2048
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2026
Abstract
The difficulty and confusion that can arise from the use of categories that are not mutually exclusive is illustrated in paragraph 2048 of Smyth's Greek Grammar, where the following statements are made, apparently to clarify the definitions of the three kinds of participle: 1. A participle may be both circumstantial and supplementary; 2. The circumstantial participle is used by way of apposition to the subject of the verb and, though strictly predicative, may agree attributively with a noun or pronoun; 3. An attributive participle may be circumstantial.
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- © 1939 Linguistic Society of America
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1 I believe that much of the confusion in the grammars is due to the fact that whereas the terms ‘circumstantial’ and ‘supplementary’ are used only of function, ‘attributive’ is used sometimes of function and sometimes of form, that is, of position. For this reason, I should prefer to confine the term ‘attributive’ to position alone, as contrasted with ‘predicative’, and when speaking of the corresponding function, use some such word as ‘identifying’.