From: clayton stirling bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun May 28 2000 - 17:40:41 EDT
on 05/28/00 12:24 PM, yochanan bitan wrote:
> shalom Carl,
>>
>> Example: Rev 8:2 KAI EIDON TOUS hEPTA AGGELOUS hOI ENWPION TOU QEOU
>> hESTHKASIN, KAI EDOQHSAN AUTOIS hEPTA SALPIGGES. In English perhaps we
>> would normally convert that last clause as "They were given seven
>> trumpets"--that is, English can make a recipient the syntactic subject and
>> treat what is the subject in the Greek sentence as a so-called "received
>> object" of the passive verb
>
> As you mentioned in the example, the Recipient is not made the syntactic
> Subject (the nominative case) but remains in the dative, so we are still
> waiting for an example. The above example testifies to a greater
> flexibility in the "semantic function hierarchy" for English than for
> Greek.
>
> ERRWSQE
> Randall Buth
Carl, Randall and private respondents,
Thank you,
I suspect that this question will remain somewhat OPEN since one of the
responses I received in private, from a veteran professional linguist
suggested that I should not rule out dative case subjects in NT Greek.
However, until we can come up with a live example I will remain skeptical
about dative subjects.
Thanks again to all who helped out with this.
Clay
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