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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