another Mounce mistake

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Fri Nov 1 12:09:58 EST 2002


On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:56:38 -0500 "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote:
> From a reading of messages in this thread I don't know how anyone would
> have guessed that this list focuses (or is supposed to focus) on
> Greek--rather than English--grammar. I would think that most of us who
> speak or write English have more than enough to watch out for in our own
> English usage to find time to fault someone else's, whether that's a Greek
> grammarian or anyone else.

What makes it interesting to me and also on-topic for b-greek is that the
Greek analogue to Mounce's English example, namely attraction of a relative
pronoun to the case of the antecedent, happens with quite some frequency in
polished prose.  I was floored the first time I saw this construct in Greek
because it is considered such poor style or grammar in English.

Stephen Carlson

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