examples of unusual word order in hina and hoti clauses

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Aug 29 14:21:37 EDT 2002


I think this response from Randall was meant for the list as well as for
myself; at any rate, I think it should be added to the public thread. cwc

>Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:29:51 -0400
>From: Randall Buth <ButhFam at compuserve.com>
>Subject: [b-greek] Re: examples of unusual word order in hina and hoti
>  clauses
>Sender: Randall Buth <ButhFam at compuserve.com>
>To: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>
>CAIRETE
>
>Just a comment to add
>
>>The text of Gal 2:10:
>>
>>MONON TWN PTWCWN hINA MNHMONEUWMEN,
>>hO KAI ESPOUDASA AUTO TOUTO POIHSAI.
>>
>>I think that if one Englished this as follows, it's "irregular" English
>but
>>perfectly intelligible:
>>
>>"Just the 'poor'--that we should bear (them) in mind, which I've even made
>>(it) a point--to do this very thing."<
>
>Yes, though in order to see it for its syntactic function one needs the
>earlier
>clauses.
>"... they joined with us amicably, in order that we would go to
>the nations, they to the circumcision,
>-- only the poor --
>that we would remember --
>which very thing we have endeavored to do"
>This is a double afterthought.
>The "poor" introduces an 'afterthought', called
>TAIL in Functional Grammar terminology and it serves as a topic for
>the verbal clause 'remember'.
>
>And TAIL (afterthoughts) by their very nature give the impression of
>colloquial, unpolished writing.
>
>ERRWSQE
>Randall Buth
>



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