Re: Article-Article-Noun-Noun

From: Paul Zellmer (pzellmer@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Dec 16 1996 - 02:55:17 EST


M. Palmer wrote:

<snip>
> Now for the semantics: The genitive phrase may hold any of several
> different semantic roles (meanings) in relation to the head noun,
> depending in large part on the meaning of that head noun. The example you
> have chosen has a head noun (DIKAIOSUNH) which has the semantic force of
> a verb (loosely speaking). The genitive noun could, in certain contexts,
> hold the relationship of a subject to a verb. The phrase
>
> THN TOU QEOU DIKAIOSUNH
>
> could have a meaning (in certain contexts) which would imply a
> relationship shared by "God" and "righteousness" in the clause "God is
> righteous." (In the major grammars this reading is called a *subjective*
> genitive.)
<snip>

Micheal,

Please help me out here, because my memory of my intermediate greek
course must be failing me, and I am separated from my library. Please
contrast the "subjective genitive" and the "genitive absolute." My
faulty memory is trying to make these synonymous, and I cannot see how
the "genitive absolute" fits for an adjectival use of the genitive.

Thanks,

Paul Zellmer
Southern Methodist Missions



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