On the use of the participle functioning as a finite verbal form in the Chronicle of John Malalas

Moreover, there are structural similarities to be noted between different sources of the participle in the function of a finite verbal form. No detailed research on the structure of the clauses with a participle functioning as a finite verbal form has been done, at least as far as Hellenistic Greek is concemed 14. Nevertheless, the rather sporadic references in various sources suggest that at least one clause structure was quite frequent in Hellenistic and Byzantine Greek, i.e. the structure with the conjunction Kai connecting a participle and a finite verbal form