Re: Genitive relationships (WAS: Construct States)

Raymond A. Brown wrote:

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> Nor did English use the present participle!
Sure it did!  Ic waes sprecende.   At least Bede's
translators so use it.

> The older form was: "I am a-pulling"  = *I am on pulling.  The prefixed a-
> is a watered down form of 'on'.
Yes, but did the on precede the inflected infinitive or the present participle?
I think the latter.  Ic waes on sprecende.  Older than what?


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