Apology & Accusatives
Mark Wilson
emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Fri Jun 21 15:04:25 EDT 2002
Mark:
> >>GINWSKEIN DE hUMAS BOULOMAI, ADELFOI (Philippians 1:12)
>
>In cases like this, is there a fixed rule to determine whether the
>accusative is the object of the finite verb or the subject of the
>infinitive?<<
You wrote:
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... in this context, both the
>pronoun hUMAS and the infinitive GINWSKEIN are the appositional objects of
>the verb BOULOMAI, and hence both logically accusative.
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Would this mean then:
Object 1: I desire you +
Object 2: I desire to know =
I desire you knowing X,Y, and/or Z...
If so, and I realize you are giving us an English grammar aid to
understand this construct, but would the idea "I desire you" really
capture the function of hUMAS as object of BOULOMAI? (Can the object
of a verb be incomplete?)
Mark Wilson
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