It has been a while since I have done syntax searches. What I want to find is frequency of what some call 1st attributive position (article, modifier, noun) and 2nd attributive position (article, noun, article, modifier). I'm teaching participles right now. The structure I'm looking for (2nd position) is illustrated by Matt. 7:13, particularly the phrase ἡ ὁδὸς ἡ ἀπάγουσα (εἰς τὴν ἀπώλειαν), as compared with ὁ ζῶν πατὴρ of John 6:57 (1st attributive position). I want to be able to find examples of each structure. I would appreciate any help anyone can give. I have Cascadia and Lexham and OpenText.
- Are you trying to keep this specific to participles or simply the structure (adjective proper or participle is fine)? I hope that makes sense. You can make the search so that it constrains it to being participles in the first and second attributive structure. I'll just go ahead and do that. Hopefully that helps enough. btw, I love it when people engage on here about searching these databases. Very rare. But, these are amazing databases.
Ryan Robinson — Edited
Here is the first search. I pull up structure in the database (Matthew 7:13 in this case), and I start to replicate it. Probably one of the more important things you have to do is on the final "Clause Function", make it agree with the first determiner (article) in one of the grammatical categories that it needs to (in this case, gender). Of note, I forgot to add the participle morphological category in my original search because I was fairly confident it wouldn't change the results. I went ahead and added that and researched it, and it didn't change the results. In this case, I got 117 hits.- Pretty much, rinse and repeat. 65 hits. Let me know if you have any questions. I'll try and respond soon. Can't promise as quick a response as this one was. Found me in a free moment! :)