[B-Greek] Matthew 21:7,8
Michael Aubrey
mga318 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 8 17:04:44 EST 2010
Typo -- Luraghi was published 2003, not 2009.
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From: Michael Aubrey <mga318 at yahoo.com>
To: theomann at comcast.net; bGreek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Fri, January 8, 2010 10:20:22 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Matthew 21:7,8
>> What distinctions, if any, should be made between EP'
>> and EPANW, in verse 7, and EN, in verse 8? Thanks.
In terms of English translation? None. In terms of Greek?
The distinction must be made of how the semantics work.
The main challenge isn't the EPANW though, since it
simply means: "marker of a position relatively higher
whether contiguous or not" That is to say, the cloaks are
on the donkey and Jesus is above them, also on the donkey.
He's higher. One might say that EPANW is unmarked for
contact with a surface (i.e. there might contact; there might
not be contact. We don't know), whereas EPI is marked for
contact with a surface.
EPI & EN share a good amount of semantic overlap, so
these differences have less to do with there being significant
semantic difference in this particular text and far more to do
with how the different senses of each preposition relate to
each other internally.
EPI: "with the genitive can denote Location, with physical
contact of the trajector with the surface of the landmark, or
Direction, whereby it implies that the end of motion brings
the trajector in contact with the landmark" (Silvia Luraghi,
_On the Meaning of the Prepositions and Cases: The
Expression of Semantic Roles in Ancient Greek_
[Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 2009], 303). The point here is
that the motion of cloaks ended with the surface of the
donkey.
EN: "used in location expression in cases where the
landmark is conceived as a container, which exerts
dynamic control on the trajector; the area covered by the
trajector coincides at least partly, with the area covered
by the landmark." (Luraghi, 93-94). The road as a landmark
is conceived as a container for the cloaks.
There's nothing fancy, special or exciting going on here, just
a lot of semantic overlap that's realized as a single word in
English translations.
Mike Aubrey
http://evepheso.wordpress.com
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From: "theomann at comcast.net" <theomann at comcast.net>
To: bGreek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Fri, January 8, 2010 8:33:59 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Matthew 21:7,8
What distinctions, if any, should be made between EP' and EPANW, in verse 7, and EN, in verse 8? Thanks.
Ted
Theodore H. Mann
theomann at comcast.com
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