Datives with Prepositions

Ron Fay roncfay at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 22 16:06:03 EST 2002


It has been my experience that what one labels a dative with a preposition 
is irrelevent, that is the label of the dative.  It is the preposition that 
carries the force, not the case.  EN is locative, the dative case is just 
the case that EN takes.

Thus, EK and a genitive is just labeled by what EK does, it has nothing to 
do with the genitive.

Therefore, I recommend labeling the full phrase, not the case by itself, 
since it is the full phrase doing something, specifically by the semantic 
force of the preposition.

- Ron Fay

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Ron Fay
Ph. D. student and New Testament Teaching Fellow
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Deerfield, IL.
roncfay at hotmail.com



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