[B-Greek] John 11:43 dativus

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Mar 21 19:13:01 EST 2005


At 10:06 PM +0100 3/21/05, Beata Urbanek wrote:
>Text:
>
>FWNHi MEGALHi EKRAUGASEN
>
>Is dativus here modi/manner or instrumentalis/means? Does it function as
>an adverb?

It probably doesn't matter a great deal whether it's deemed one rather than
the other, but inasmuch as the key word here is MEGALHi I guess I'd prefer
to call it a dative of manner: ("he cried out loudly").
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Carl W. Conrad
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