PREPOSITIONS

PREPOSITIONS

Appositional indicator  [wJ"]

Case Governance

            governing 1 case

                    G

                    D

                    A

            governing 2 cases:  genitive, accusative

            governing 3 cases:  genitive, dative, accusative

Compounds, types of (not including morpheme-root combinations)

                    non-prepositional compounds

                           root + ______

                           root + ______ + ______

                    prepositional compounds

                           preposition + ______

                           preposition + ______

                           preposition + preposition + _______

                           preposition + preposition + _______ + _______

Formation

            with movables

            eliding weak final vowels (before words with initial vowel or before roots with initial vowel)  (See Trenchard's Voc. Guide, 290)

            fricativizing exposed stop after eliding weak final vowel (See Trenchard's Voc. Guide, 290)

            not eliding weak final vowels:  περί, ἀμφί, pπρό

Improper prepositions

Meaning Classification

            agency:  ὑπό + G; διά + G; ἐν + D

            separation/source

            location

            destination

            "than":  παρά + A; ὑπέρ + A

Postpositives

Proclitics

Proper prepositions

Root  [See Metzger, Lex Aids, 49; Trenchard, Voc. Guide, 5]

Substantivized phrases