[b-greek] RE: Luke 6:12b

From: c stirling bartholomew (cc.constantine@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 11:18:59 EDT


Greetings Iver,


on 7/21/01 2:33 AM, Iver Larsen wrote:

> Rather than inventing labels for the genitives, I find it more helpful to
> look at the genitive as a grammatical way of connecting two nouns or nominal
> forms together. Languages vary greatly in how they connect such nominals,
> but I have not yet heard of a language that does not have some way of
> associating two nouns. The intended meaning behind the association is not a
> grammatical, but semantic issue, and there are very many different
> associations possible. The meaning of the relationship is always derived
> from context.

Hurray! Now lets gather up all the grammars published in the last decade
which still have 20-30 types of genitives and burn them. The only grammar
that I own that even comes close, not close enough, to what Iver is saying
here is Richard Young's. So we can spare him from the flames but all the
rest of them must burn. We could start the blase with Wallace and Mounce
being perhaps the worst offenders. If we can get enough people together for
our grammar burning perhaps we could get Leni Reifenstahl to film it for us.

Clay

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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062



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