[B-Greek] KAI AUTOUS--Mark 1:19
Mark Lama
markosl80 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 18:22:29 EST 2004
Hello, fellow B-Greekers!
Today I noticed what seems like a curious construction in Mark 1:19:
KAI PROBAS OLIGON EIDEN IAKWBON TON TOU ZEBEDAIOU KAI IWANNHN TON ADELFON AUTOU, KAI AUTOUS EN TWi PLOIWi KATARTIZONTAS TA DIKTUA.
To me, it looks like the writer is hesitating between the following two constructions:
EIDEN IAKWBON ... KAI IWANNHN ... EN TWi PLOIWi KATARTIZONTAS TA DIKTUA,
and,
EIDEN IAKWBON ... KAI IWANNHN ... KAI AUTOI (HSAN) EN TWi PLOIWi KATARTIZONTES TA DIKTUA,
producing a rather jumbled result. It is as if he starts out to use the KAI-phrase, to draw greater attention to what James and John are doing, but the influence of EIDEN (AUTOUS) is strong enough that he (ungrammatically) puts the pronoun-participle combination in the accusative, as if it were the object of EIDEN and not the subject of an implied copula (HSAN). Is my intuition correct here, or am I missing something? Could I view this as a kind of case-attraction, based on an identity of referents? I would see a change AUTOI>AUTOUS based on the logic: AUTOI (nominative) equals IAKWBON KAI IWANNHN (accusative), therefore AUTOI should be accusative, AUTOUS. Or am I all wrong, and this sentence is still somehow grammatical, or the solecism, if there be one, should be accounted for in another way?
Thank you for your comments,
Mark Lama
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