Constituents in the "wrong places"?

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at sogang.ac.kr
Tue Mar 12 20:50:13 EST 2002


Mark 4.30b reads:

EN TINI AUTHN PARABOLHi QWMEN;

AUTHN, the object of the verb, is placed within
the noun phrase TINI PARABOLHi. So, AUTHN which is 
not part of the noun phrase is placed within it.

I can understand free word order, but this example
seems to be more than free word order. Can you explain
what is going on here?


Another example is Gal 3.8:

PROIDOUSA DE hH GRAFH hOTI EK PISTEWS DIKAIOI TA EQNH hO QEOS,
PROEUHGGELISATO TWi ABRAAM hOTI....

Here hH GRAFH, the subject of the main clause PROEUHGGELISATO...,
is placed within the participial clause PROIDOUSA DE ....
This is less "out of order", in that hH GRAFH can be construed
with the participial clause in semantics if not in syntax. 

Anyway, can you explain what is going on here?

Moon
Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
Moon
Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea




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