Hebrews 9:6, 12:6 and the usage of DE
Wayne Leman
wayne_leman at sil.org
Wed Jul 17 17:31:59 EDT 2002
Mark, Bill's use of the term "in line" *may* come from discourse studies
where some semantic entity is considered to be "on line" or "off line",
depending on whether it is part of the main chain of linguistic forms that
carries on the main "thread" of the particular genre of a passage. For Greek
narrative genre, on line verbs would typically be finite. Off line verbs are
often participles (I think; my memory is not as good as it used to be so I
may not be recalling correctly). I would think it is possible for other
parts of speech to have on line (in line) or off line discourse functions.
Hence, DE could function as a discourse level adversative, contrasting one
section (or pericope) against another, or it could function more locally,
perhaps contrasting two nouns, both of which are highly ranked for "topic
continuity" (as described by linguist T. Givon and some others).
Of course, Bill may have some other meaning to "in line," so I'm just
guessing here. He can easily correct me if I have guessed wrong.
Wayne
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> Bill:
>
> You wrote:
>
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> >I guess I was looking for insight into how to evaluate when it does and
> >when it doesn't. For example, the "in line" usage seems to me to infer
> >an adversive, while the post-positive usage seems to imply a new
> >thought.
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>
> Not sure of your terminology here. Not familiar with "in line." I do
> not think there are grammatical clues to its function. Context alone
> will decide. I think DE is always post-positive, right?
>
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> Mark Wilson
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