[B-Greek] Semantic Range of Prepositions
Richard Lindeman
oblchurch at msn.com
Mon Mar 22 11:41:45 EDT 2010
Tim:
Thank you for sharing this and especially for the general principle cited below. This is helpful.
Rich Lindeman
From: Timothy Lawson
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:08 AM
These texts illustrate a general principle: Stative verbs override the transitive force of prepositions. Almost always, when a stative verb is used with a transitive preposition, the preposition’s natural force is neutralized; all that remains is a stative idea."
The above observations have led me to have a keener interest in learning how to discern what makes a verb "stative" since it may have such an interesting influence on the transitive force of a preposition.
You may be well aware that there are two schools of thought (as indicated by Wallace in footnote 14 on pg. 361) about prepositions: One school views them as simply clarifying the meaning of the cases, often with the results that the prepositions are not treated seperately from case uses; the other school sees the preposition as the dominant element, with the result that prepositions deserve their own special treatment.
I apologize if this was an intrusion,
Scotty
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