What is a Subject?

yochanan bitan ButhFam at compuserve.com
Sun May 28 15:24:22 EDT 2000


shalom Carl,
>
>Example: Rev 8:2 KAI EIDON TOUS hEPTA AGGELOUS hOI ENWPION TOU QEOU
>hESTHKASIN, KAI EDOQHSAN AUTOIS hEPTA SALPIGGES. In English perhaps we
>would normally convert that last clause as "They were given seven
>trumpets"--that is, English can make a recipient the syntactic subject and
>treat what is the subject in the Greek sentence as a so-called "received
>object" of the passive verb 

As you mentioned in the example, the Recipient is not made the syntactic
Subject (the nominative case) but remains in the dative, so we are still
waiting for an example. The above example testifies to a greater
flexibility in the "semantic function hierarchy" for English than for
Greek.

ERRWSQE
Randall Buth



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