'instrumental-comitative dative' - beginners guide to grammatical terms
Edgar Krentz
ekrentz at lstc.edu
Wed Jun 16 11:59:06 EDT 1999
>"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:
>> I would understand each instance of EN that you mark with exclamation mark
>> in these verses as an instrumental-comitative dative and use "with" to
>> convey the sense into English.
>
>Is there anywhere on the web where one can get a definition of
>'instrumental-comitative dative', or for that matter if not on the web
>then any
>printed resource that anyone recommends.
>
>While we're at it, I'm sure there are others who are just as bewildered at
>times as I
>when some of these grammatical terms are used, especially as some work
>with different
>sets of terms which they would allow etc etc. I'm all for those who go for 9
>genitives instead of 39 (arbitrary numbers)
>
>So, can anyone suggest a beginners guide to all the different types of
>genitive,
>dative, aorist etc (preferably the fewer the better!)?
>
>If only that we might be speaking intelligibly to one another in English
>whilst
>trying to understand the greek ...
>
>Thanks
>
>Jonathan Ryder
Don't lose heart. Carl Conrad is simply being precise. See H. W. Smyth,
GREEK GRAMMAR, par. 1521-1528, all devoted to the comitative dative.
This is the grammar you should read constantly. Its grammatical terminology
is the normal set, prior to the arrival of modern linguistics.
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