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- March 21st, 2015, 9:44 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Rank shifting
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10939
Re: Rank shifting
The notion of rank-shifting is useful in that it describes what is happening from a structural standpoint, but it requires additional consideration along the lines of Levinsohn's "default/marked" and "choice implying meaning" principles to nail down more precisely the exact natu...
- March 20th, 2015, 1:52 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Rank shifting
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10939
Re: Rank shifting
I chose the term 'rank shifting' to emphasize the fact that I am looking into the relationship of elements in two different ranks: clauses and noun phrases. But for my limited purpose here, we can talk about the syntax of prepositions as long as we can talk about subjects and objects and the relatio...
- March 19th, 2015, 8:15 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Rank shifting
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10939
Re: Rank shifting
(1) I don't think there's any way in the world to disambiguate between subjective and objective genitive in ἡ φιλία τοῦ Ἀκύλα. I was not clear. I do not mean disambiguate in the sense of what readers do. I mean how to write it in an unambiguous way. (3) I do think Greek writers tend to avoid constr...
- March 19th, 2015, 8:06 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Rank shifting
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10939
Re: Rank shifting
Stephen, I am basically trying to figure out what ways of rank shifting a clause into a noun phrase are 'good Greek', meaning grammatical and secondarily, considered normal (as opposed to 'foreign' or 'awkward'). My interest is in noun phrases that are headed by a noun and not composition per se. Wh...
- March 19th, 2015, 3:02 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Rank shifting
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10939
Re: Rank shifting
How would a writer disambiguate between the subjective and objective genitives in ἡ φιλία τοῦ Ἀκύλα? ἡ φιλία ἣν ἔχει ὁ Ἀκύλας and ἡ φιλία πρὸς τὸν Ἀκύλαν? Would 1 John 4:16 support using ἐν to indicate the object or is it irrelevant? I looked at a few grammars on rank shifting and found nothing. Is ...
- March 19th, 2015, 2:19 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Rank shifting
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10939
Re: Rank shifting
Trying to steer the conversation back to my question about rank shifting, I notice that LSJ says about φιλία the person is commonly expressed by πρός τινα...less freq. εἰς ἀλλήλους...also by object. gen. The purpose of the permutations was just to make the question shorter. For example my number (3)...
- March 18th, 2015, 8:16 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Rank shifting
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10939
Rank shifting
Which of the following makes for a good continuation and which are not good Greek? (Optional words are in parentheses and alternatives in brackets.) Γινώσκομεν ὅτι ὁ Ἀκύλας φιλεῖ τὴν Πρίσκιλλαν. Τοῦτ' ἔστιν, γινώσκομεν (1) τὴν φιλίαν (τὴν) [ἀπὸ, ἐκ, παρὰ] τοῦ Ἀκύλα [εἰς, πρὸς] τὴν Πρίσκιλλαν. (2) τὴ...
- November 2nd, 2013, 2:08 pm
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Relevance theory
- Replies: 3
- Views: 34313
Relevance theory
In what ways have you found relevance theory useful for the exegete?
- May 14th, 2013, 1:17 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: The Terminology of Aspect & Aktionsart
- Replies: 28
- Views: 29365
Re: Aspect & Aktionsart
Is there any reason why not recognize aspect as truly layered? 'Walk' is atelic, 'walk to the park' is telic, 'walk to the park every day' is atelic, 'walk to the park every day for a week' is telic etc? While there is aspectual polysemy, here the issue seems to be the whole phrase, not just the ve...
- May 14th, 2013, 10:26 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: The Terminology of Aspect & Aktionsart
- Replies: 28
- Views: 29365
Re: Aspect & Aktionsart
Is there any reason why not recognize aspect as truly layered? 'Walk' is atelic, 'walk to the park' is telic, 'walk to the park every day' is atelic, 'walk to the park every day for a week' is telic etc? While there is aspectual polysemy, here the issue seems to be the whole phrase, not just the verb.