Re: Compound Verb Complements
Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Sat, 30 May 1998 15:23:12 -0400
At 2:49 PM -0400 5/30/98, Donald W Price wrote:
>Hello B-Greekers:
>
>I have another question regarding which I would like some advice.
>
>In compound verbs, where either APO and EK are prefixed to the front of
>the verb, is it true that all such verbs
>still are used only with an ablative object? The reason I ask is that
>in Acts 2:33, Luke records that :
>
>"exeechen touto" = "he hath poured forth this..."
>
>If APO and EK are used only with the ablative, why is TOUTO not
>ablative?
No, you need to learn the verbs each by their own idiosyncratic nature. In
the above instance TOUTO is a direct object of EKCEW; an ablatival
genitive, if used will construe with a preposition such as APO or EK/EX
that requires it.
Carl W. Conrad
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