Word Order
Wayne Leman
wleman at mcn.net
Fri Oct 6 21:46:49 EDT 2000
Moon,
Anyunghashimnika?
> The above discussion led me to think that perhapse the unmarked word order
> of Koine Greek is a partial order. Given for examples elements A,B,C,D,E,
> a partial order may be defined by A < B, C< D , D < E. In this order,
> C can be placed anywhere, the order between A and C is not defined,
> etc. Any ordering can be said to satisfy this partial order as long as
> it is true that A < B, C <D, D < E.
>
> What do you think of the "partial unmarked word order"?
Yes, there can definitely be word order pairings in languages like this
creating partial word orders. I don't know that Greek has them, except for
some "low-level" pairings (such as obvious pairings such as articles always
precede the noun phrases they modify--which is actually a phrase-level
ordering, etc.) which do not involve clausal or sentential constituents,
however.
I seem to recall that Timothy Friberg wrote his Ph.D dissertation on NT
Greek word order, at the University of Minnesota in the U.S.A. I do not have
a copy of it. Tim is a friend. I should get a copy someday.
Wayne
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