The Ablative of Quality and the Genitive of Quality: Dissertation Presented for the Degree of Ph; D., Johns Hopkins University, June, 1899 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The modern grammarians, on the other hand, have sought to solve many questions about these constructions, such as their origin, their primitive nature, the limitations appearing in the use of each, the extent of their difference or of their equivalence with one another; but the success of these efforts has not been such as to yield a concise and accurate expression of the whole truth. Indeed the newest American school grammars - for instancetlane's - seem driven back fairly to the ancient standpoint, the mere statement of the most obvious fact.

Notwithstanding this failure to reach unanimity upon all points, the past century has brought an advance in our knowledge of the constructions before us. So long as we designated the two construe tions by a common adjective, gualz'lalr, we had in the very name a source of confusion to our ideas, which was in no wise removed when Madvig (gram. 287) applied the new titles der beschrei bende Genetiv, der beschreibende Ablativ, to the old constructions. If there is really a fundamental difference between these two cases, then we may have a gain still to make through a distinction in names, just as in the case of two other constructions bearing a common appellation we have made a gain recently by distinguish ing them as the ablative of price and the genitive of value (cf. Archiv. IX. 101, if).

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