On KATA

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Oct 30 19:14:54 EST 2002


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In a message dated 10/30/02 4:09:50 PM, waldoslusher at yahoo.com writes:

>In Philemon 2
>
>KAI THi KAT' OIKON SOU EKKLHSIAi
>
>How do you take KATA here?
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>Waldo Slusher
>

Waldo, I would see KATA + the accusative OIKON as an adverbial accusative
telling where. Such constructions can answer questions such as how far, how
long,  and where. Sometimes you also find a distributive idea in such prep.
phrases, along the way, two by two, etc.


Carlton Winbery
LA. College ---




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