[B-Greek] Justin and objective genitives

Rob Richardson rob.richardson40 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 11:43:38 EST 2011


> From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> I would not think so. On the other hand, I am rather dubious of the distinction
> made between "subjective" and "objective" genitives on the basis of whether the
> head noun is a noun of action. I think that any genitive of this sort attached
> to a noun like APOMNHMONEUMATA could mean either "notations of (made by) X" or
> "notations of (concerning) X." Of course, had the author taken pains to make a
> differentiation clear, s/he might have written APOMNHMONEUMATA GEGRAMMENA hUPO +
> gen. or APOMNHMONEUMATA PERI TOU/TWN ... But I really don't think there's any
> grammatical rule that will resolve the question whether he intended these memos
> to be "composed by him" or to be "concerning him." I just don't think the
> question can be resolved on a grammatical basis. Sorry.
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>
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Carl,
May I ask for a bit of clarification as to your view on this?   If the
head noun is a verbal noun and there is no ambiguity as to whether it
is subjective or objective, then is the exegete on firm ground to
consider that the genitive noun  is either the subject or object of a
verb that is "extracted" from the verbal noun?


Regards,
Rob Richardson



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