[B-Greek] Genitive vs Adjective

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekoning at earthlink.net
Tue May 24 22:32:54 EDT 2005


On 5/24/05 5:50 PM, "Mitch Larramore" <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Why is a Genitive noun "more emphatic" than a simple
> adjective 

It isn't.


> The
> sense I've gathered about the Genitive by reading
> posts out here is that the relationship between the
> Genitive and the noun it modifies is somewhat
> ambiguous. 

Very.

>So, I would think that an adjective, since
> it cannot have any ambiguity as to its adjectival
> role ...

Not true. Adjectives perform several functions.


> ... would be more emphatic that a Genitive "noun."

You are using the word emphatic in an offhand way.
Emphasis is not a feature of the case system.  It is controlled by word
order other issues in the surface structure.

I don't know who you have been reading but you might want to find something
better to read.

Elizabeth Kline 





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