[B-Greek] Construction question

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Feb 9 13:14:11 EST 2008


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From: "Rob Reid" <dr.robreid at gmail.com>
Date: February 9, 2008 11:59:57 AM EST
To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Construction Question


Friends, I am trying to research a specific construction for the  
"medial genitive" or "embedded genitive":

Construction: article[nominative] article[genitive] noun[genitive]  
noun[nominative]

Are any of you familiar with anything written in this regard? Or that  
might be helpful? Thanks!

-- 
~Rob G. Reid
Ιησους Χριστος εστι Κυριος και σωτηρ  
του κοσμου (ουκ Καισαρος ουδε αλλος  
αρχων)!
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Of the above construction I will only say that it is certainly common  
in older Attic, less common, I think, in Koine; I note, for instance,  
in the opening of Plato's Republic (327a): καλὴ μὲν οὖν  
μοι καί ἡ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων πομπὴ ἔδοξεν  
εἶναι ... [KALH MEN OUN MOI hH TWN EPICWRIWN POMPH EDOXEN  
EINAI ... ]. When I was teaching Attic Greek I used to refer to this  
common construction as "a noun sandwich." I confess, however, that I  
never heard any other call it that.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)




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