[B-Greek] Semantic Range of Prepositions

Richard Lindeman oblchurch at msn.com
Wed Mar 24 12:57:35 EDT 2010


Mike:

Thanks for the correction!  I do have A.T. Robertson in my library and will check it out, but at the moment I am wrestling with reading Plato and will keep the majority of my focus there. I have spent far too much time in the past reading grammars and not enough time in reading Greek.

Rich Lindeman  


From: Michael Aubrey 
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:41 AM
To: Richard Lindeman ; Timothy Lawson 
Cc: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org 
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Semantic Range of Prepositions


It's more like prepositions were adverbs originally, which then developed in two directions: as prepositions on the one hand and as preverbs/prefixes on the other. But this isn't terribly different than English (its an Indo-European phenomena). In English, the adverbs attached themselves to the ends of verbs rather than the beginning: stand/stand up, take/take off, give/give up, and so on.

A. T. Robertson talks about this in his grammar in the first couple sections on the verb and then also again a bit in the preposition section as well. Extended reading of Robertson is always encouraged. It may not be well organized, but Robertson's knowledge of the language is unsurpassed.

Mike



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