Syntax Grammars

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Thu Dec 9 10:24:16 EST 1999


To: George Goolde,

<< That is why I personally prefer an eight case grammar to a five case 
one.  I think it is a strong step in the right direction toward teaching 
students to understand their Bibles.  The main idea of the ablative is not 
the same as the main idea of the genitive whether or not we chose to 
identify them as separate cases or uses of one case. >>

I'm not for sure I understand why insisting that there are two separate 
cases, namely the genitive and ablative, allows us to understand Greek any 
better than saying that there is one genitive case with two major 
functions, namely the pure genitive and the ablative genitive. It seems to 
me that they both amount to roughly the same thing.

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad degree), 
what do I know?"




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