Temporal constructions shift the landmark and the trajector source expressions out of the physical plane and reconceptualize them as events. The trajector is an event conceived as moving away from the landmark viewed as a temporal reference point. Fundamental to temporal expressions with ἐκ and ἀπό are distance and separation, which are then applied to the temporal plane.
Cognitive Linguistics
Partitive constructions with ἐκ and ἀπό fall into two general types: entity partitives and set partitives.
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Koine-Greek 