identifying sentences

Trevor Peterson 06PETERSON at cua.edu
Wed Aug 21 13:37:48 EDT 2002


>===== Original Message From c stirling bartholomew 
<cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net> =====
>MATT. 26:16 KAI APO TOTE EZHTEI EUKAIRIAN hINA AUTON PARADWi.
>MATT. 26:17 THi DE PRWTHi TWN AZUMWN PROSHLQON hOI MAQHTAI TWi IHSOU
>LEGONTES: POU QELEIS hETOIMASWMEN SOI FAGEIN TO PASCA;
>
>I would suggest that THi DE PRWTHi falls on a major discourse boundary which
>is indicated most clearly by the time reference. This would rule out seeing
>it as a continuation of the "sentence" ending with  hINA AUTON PARADWi.

Am I missing something really obvious, or isn't DE inexplicable if we don't 
start a new clause in v. 17? It seems like the presence of the conjunction 
prevents us from taking the beginning of v. 17 as a continuation of the clause 
in v. 16.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics




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