Word Order: Mark 3.1 and beyond

TonyProst at aol.com TonyProst at aol.com
Fri May 14 12:14:34 EDT 1999


Carl said:

 This is why centrality
of position can't really be a very important element in prose (although it
certainly may be in stichic verse, as Latin hexameters reveal marvelously).
When one is listening to another speak, the place of greatest emphasis is
really going to be the beginning and the end of the sequence of words.

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Please briefly expand on this first sentence, particularly the parenthesis! I 
have been reading with great interest this set of correspondences, but as I 
deal chiefly with verse, it has served to distinguish my text from the 
ur-text. Nonnos certainly uses lines as structural units, rarely extending a 
predicate or adjective into the next line from its object. He also frequently 
constructs symmetrical lines, in which the subject or the verb will be the 
central word, and its attributes symmetrically divided around it, often with 
a dative adjective and its associated participle at one end of the line and 
the other, with another pair of predicates nested between them, surrounding 
the main word.

	Is there any recognizable or even arguable GREEK metrical verse in 
any of the Koine NT?

Regards,
Tony Prost
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