Ellipsis

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Oct 4 08:13:40 EDT 2002


Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:25:35 +0000
Englished and forwarded for: "S Chabert d'Hyeres" <laodicy at ifrance.com>

Ellipsis

cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu wrote:
<< In fact, it seems to me
that the idea that there is some "ellipsis" involved in this usage of TA
suggests that there's something remaining of the much-older demonstrative
function of the article--and I really don't think there's any residue of
that older demonstrative function of the article in the TA phrases here
under discussion.>>

However the ellipsis based upon the article seems quite a common construction:
  
1 - ellipsis of a word found earlier in the text:
	1 Cor 1:11 hUPO TWN  CLOHS [ADELFWN]
	Acts 24:5 TOIS IOUDAIOIS, TOIS KATA THN OIKOUMENHN
	Lk 2:39 : PANTA TA KATA TON NOMON KURIOU (refers to v. 23)

	-BAGD,  § 9 notable uses of the article : a - the elliptic use which
	leaves a part of a sentence accompanied by the article to be completed
	from the context : hO TA DUO = the man with the two (talents) Mt 25:17.

	The individual sense of the article explains its use as equivalent of
	the demonstrative, "the one of ...", followed by a genitive, to
indicate
	a noun previously used in the sentence: BRACUTEROS hO TOU hIPPOU BIOS
	TOU TWN ANQRWPWN, the life of the horse is shorter than the [life] of
	the man

2 - éllipse d'un mot sous-entendu ; celui-ci est connu par l'usage.

2 - ellipsis of an understood word; this is discerned by usage
	Mt  1:6  hH TOU OURIOU = the wife of Uriah
	Lk 24:10 MARIA hH IAKWBOU = the wife of  James
	Rom 16:11 TOUS EK TWN NARKISSOU = his sons?

3 - ellipsis of an understood word (inferred from the context)
	Lk 10:7 ESQIONTES TA PAR AUTWN

4 - Ellipsis?
	Paul speaking of himself  
	Acts 24:10 TA PERI EMAUTOU  . Here Luke retained the very style of Paul
	who gave to TA a very general sense (cf. Eph. 6:21). In indirect
	discourse, on the other hand, Luke used PANTWN TOUTWN and TAUTA in
vv. 8
	and 9 respectively.

As for EN TOIS in Lk 2:49, allow me to take up again these words in the
thread on Lk 23:43:

<<Being with the person is more important than being in the place, great as
the place may be.>>

SCH



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