Greek Indirect Objects

Carlton Winbery winberyc at popalex1.linknet.net
Fri Aug 21 12:32:45 EDT 1998


Michael Palmer wrote;
(omission)
>Second, do you know of any indirect objects which do bear the role GOAL or
>RECIPIENT, but are assigned a case other than dative? Of course there are
>verbs which use a double accusative (like DIDASKW: Mark 4:2, for example)
>where one of the accusative case items seems to parallel the function of an
>indirect object, but are there others, but I'm not convinced it had that
>function in Greek.

The only egs. I can think of here is the use of PROS + accusative.  Compare
EIPAN AUTWi in Jn 1.25 and LEGEI hH MHTHR TOU IHSOU PROS AUTON.  I can see
no difference in function between them. I will have to run some searches to
deal with the other questions, but I do not see anything to be gained in
teaching new students by eliminating the category of dative used as
indirect object.


Carlton L. Winbery
Fogleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
Pineville, LA 71359
winberyc at popalex1.linknet.net
winbery at andria.lacollege.edu






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