Similar to French "qu'est-ce que t'attends".
Ecclesiastical Hymns
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So am I, so... I don't know. I think not everyone agrees on the definition. In fact I hesitated to use the term "phrasal verb" in my post, because I suspected "wait for" wasn't a phrasal verb by the narrowest definitions, but then I thought to hell with it, this is a concise way to denote what I mean and others will understand.
I discovered while teaching EFL that just being a native speaker of English doesn't mean I can explain the grammar succinctly, and sometimes there were things I wasn't even aware of, like the difference between the future with "going to" and "will."
I think there are two schools of thought broadly speaking:
1) Those who say that you've got a phrasal verb only when a verb is commonly associated with a small adverb (like up, down, etc.) in non-literal ways;
2) Those who also count as phrasal verbs the habitual collocation of a verb and a preposition.
Here's my (possibly erroneous) definition: A phrasal verb can't take an object of preposition with the second element (the particle).
Example: look out (beware, pay attention) doesn't take an object of out. A verb with a preposition can: look out (meaning to look from the inside of something toward the outside) can, Look out the window.
Example: look out (beware, pay attention) doesn't take an object of out. A verb with a preposition can: look out (meaning to look from the inside of something toward the outside) can, Look out the window.
That's basically 1) put another way.
In Old English it worked pretty much the same way as in German, with, I believe, the minor difference that there wasn't the convention to write the two parts as one word when they came together at the end of a clause (I think the usage varied somewhat).
I'm very much tempted to believe that there is a connection between these and modern English phrasal verbs. They feel like the same thing following different word-order rules. But I don't really know.
I'm very much tempted to believe that there is a connection between these and modern English phrasal verbs. They feel like the same thing following different word-order rules. But I don't really know.
I mean, the verb no longer comes last in subordinate clauses in modern English, and that seems to be the only reason why the e.g. zusammenkommen order doesn't occur in English and it's always "come together".
I suspect that's back-formed from a noun or participle.
Thank you, here I'm not sure how to handle Statera facta corporis since "the tree made a balance of the body" doesn't seem to fit well.
That line is a bit obscure indeed, but it may be something like this:
Blessed [tree] from whose branches
The price of the world (i.e. the price by which the world was redeemed, Jesus) hung,
The balance having been made of his body, (i.e. his body was the price to pay; imagine a merchant weighing gold in a pair of scales)
And took the spoils of hell (a reference to the Harrowing of Hell).
Blessed [tree] from whose branches
The price of the world (i.e. the price by which the world was redeemed, Jesus) hung,
The balance having been made of his body, (i.e. his body was the price to pay; imagine a merchant weighing gold in a pair of scales)
And took the spoils of hell (a reference to the Harrowing of Hell).
As if a scale hung from the tree wherein one pan was held Jesus, and the other the spoils of hell?
We do see souls being weighed in scales on some Romanesque churches, I'm thinking especially of Autun cathedral, but there are others. I like these medieval Christian texts because they tend to find religious significance in attendant details of the Crucifixion, such as the tree that the cross was made of somehow participating in the whole thing.
Do you know the Dream of the Rood?
I know of it, from high school English class, but I haven't read it.
On further reflection seems that at least theologically, it wouldn't make much sense to weigh the value of Christ against the souls in Hades, since he would be of infinite value as God himself. Several of the English translations I've been seeing do seem to prefer the similar idea of a ransom however. I like this idea, and I would assign that word to pretium. And I wonder if it might be plausible that statera has a transferred sense from "scales">"value">"payment", and possibly that statera facta might take the ablative absolute?
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