I thought that was the "aporetic genitive"!Barry Hofstetter wrote: ↑January 23rd, 2019, 8:45 am Quite. The "plenary genitive" appears to be the "genitive of I can't make up my mind what kind of genitive this is..."
Can a genitive be both objective and subjective?
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It's uncontroversially wrong.Bill Ross wrote: ↑January 22nd, 2019, 9:29 pm I was just reviewing the genitive on this site: https://www.ntgreek.org/pdf/genitive_case.pdf
It appears they suggest that there exists a "plenary genitive" that is both. Is this chart controversial/wrong or am I missing some naunce?
Wallace, who came up with the "plenary genitive", is emphatic in the introduction to his grammar that his categories aren't "real." They do not have ontological status. They're just labels that he considers exegetically convenient.
So these categories aren't grammatical categories, they're something else entirely.
That was sort of my point.
Mike Aubrey, Linguist
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