Relative Pronoun Reference (was: "another Mounce mistake")

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Nov 1 19:25:40 EST 2002


At 9:38 PM +0000 11/1/02, plstepp at juno.com wrote:
>---------- "Stephen C. Carlson"<scarlson at mindspring.com> writes:
>
>> 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 would agree that discussion of the strange phenomenon of attraction of
Greek relative pronouns to antecedents and vice-versa is worth discussing,
but I think it would be a courtesy to Bill Mounce to change a
subject-header that was inappropriate in the first place: I really hope
we're not going to start keeping count of grammatical errors in English by
list-members or others--I fear I'd be in trouble very quickly.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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