[B-Greek] Acts 19,6

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Apr 6 18:47:54 EDT 2004


At 3:36 PM -0700 4/6/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>KAI EPIQENTOS AUTOIS TOU PAULOU CEIRAS HLQE TO PNEUMA
>TO hAGION EP AUTOUS, ELALOUN TE GLWSSAIS KAI
>EPROFHTEUON
>
>I think I ran across this in the archives but can't
>find it. What grammatical or syntactical rules govern
>which verb GLWSSAIS modifies? Does its position
>(between the two) lend support to it modifying both
>verbs?

Two points: (1) GLWSSAIS LALEIN is a common collocation; I don't think I
know of PROFHTEUEIN GLWSSAIS; (2) Postioning of TE and KAI: TE as an
enclitic normally follows immediately upon the first item linked, while the
KAI precedes the second item linked.
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Carl W. Conrad
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