[B-Greek] PLHRHS
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 30 10:13:00 EDT 2004
"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:
>Hardly! Even if we should understand PLHRHS as a 2-termination adjective
>(PLHRHS mf/PLHRES n), it would have to be PLHRH in the acc. sg. fem. As
>noted above, the only way to understand it as construing with DOXAN is as
>an INDECLINABALE adjective. And perhaps that's what it is, as the evidence
>offered in BDAG seems to indicate, but I must say, it surely seems "passing
>strange" to me--very idiomatic, perhaps like American English colloquial
>idioms, "the whole nine yards" or "lock, stock, and barrel."
Both BDAG and LSJM call PLHRHS indeclinable and note the colloquial
usages, but I wonder if it would be clearer to characterize PLHRHS as
one of those "improper" prepositions, which are indeclinable themselves,
often governing the genitive, as does PLHRHS, but are not used in
compounding verbs.
Stephen Carlson
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