TWi ~ A Relative Pronoun?

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 10 18:24:58 EDT 1999





>From: "Carl W. Conrad" 

>I wasn't going to say this but since                                 
>you've repeated this EN TWi PISTEI, I
>can't go on without noting that PISTEI is a                          
>feminine noun: there's no TWi
>there at all; it's EN THi PISTEI.

Carl ~ 

Thank-you ~ I got so focused on the dative issue I lost track of the 
gender.  Daah!!

>And for my part, I think you're drawing an altogether facile and
>questionable assumption that "genitive" case means                   
>"genesis" of the noun.

Well, it IS easy [facile seems a tad pejorative!] to understand, and 
the questionability is what this list is all about, yes?

>The term "genitive" may originally have                              
>embodied a theory of how a noun in
>the genitive is related to another word,                             
>but this particular theory won't
>get you very far in explaining either                                
>some primary type of genitive or all
>the varieties of genitive usage.

I would hope not!

The proposition I have put forward is that absent other contextual 
factors ~ as if this sentence were all by itself ~ the genitive case 
without a proposition simply indicates source, or 'genesis', of that 
which it modifies.  

And I could easily be wrong...

 
George Blaisdell 
Roslyn, WA 


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