From: c stirling bartholomew (cc.constantine@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 12:54:01 EDT
on 7/21/01 8:58 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> Let's not go overboard here: there are ablatival genitives that are
> semantic and distinct from the adnominal genitive that is structural, and
> there are some partitives as well--and a whole mass of genitives with
> prepositions as well. I'm not for multiplying categories and subcategories
> of anything, but I'm not for throwing everything in the same pot without
> good reasons either.
Carl,
I am not jumping overboard I am suggesting that we make Wallace and Mounce
walk the plank. :-))
It seems to me that the genitive case can be adequately summed up by saying
that it is syntactical device that serves a structural purpose not a
semantic one. Certainly it serves more than one purpose, as you have pointed
out but it should not be discussed as a semantic contributor to the text
since in the humble opinion of a number of linguists it does not contribute
to the semantic layer of the communication model.
The most popular series of text books for seminary greek are leading another
whole generation of students down a blind ally which will leave them asking
the wrong questions about the greek cases for the rest of their careers.
Clay
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
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