Spring 2008 Schedule

Posted by on Dec 14, 2007

Semester 1, Lecture 10: Demonstratives

“χαῖρε μαθηταί”

Review and Addenda

• Review Workbook exercise 12
• Review αὐτός – See Smyth on αὐτός
  • What are the 3 distinct uses of αὐτός ?
1. 3rd Personal Pronoun (he, she, it)
   • Unlike 1st and 2nd personal pronouns, αὐτός has gender, for obvious reasons.
   • Case is determined by function in sentence
   • Gender and Number is determined by its antecedent
   • Gender includes grammatical as well as natural gender (cite examples)
2. Adjectival Intensive – as an adjective in the predicate position (usually), translate with the reflexive pronoun: “he himself”
   • ὁ ἄνθρωπος αὐτὸς = “the man himself”
   • since it is not required (verb contains subject implicitly), it is sometimes emphatic
   • not to be confused with the predicate adjective, i.e. not “the man is himself”
   • can also be used with 1st and 2nd personal pronouns: ἐγὼ αὐτός “I myself” or σὺ αὐτός “you yourself”
   • aka the Intensive Pronoun
3. Identical Adjective – as an adjective in the attributive position (usually) “same”
   • ὁ αὐτὸς ἄνθρωπος = “the same man”
   • Case, gender, number determined by the word it modifies, as with any other adjective
   • What determines gender for 1st and 2nd personal pronouns? (nothing-they have no gender)

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