[B-Greek] Fronting for Emphasis in 1 John

gfsomsel at juno.com gfsomsel at juno.com
Sat Nov 6 15:25:04 EST 2004


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:11:45 -0800 (PST) Eddie Mishoe <edmishoe at yahoo.com>
writes:
> David:
> 
> There must be some statistical work done for the GNT
> to determine "default" word order (anyone know of such
> a study?), perhaps by author. This really should not
> be a debatable topic. Statistics should settle this
> one.
> 
> But suppose an author's word order in his/her
> sentences typically follow this sequence:
>  verb+modifiers/subject+modifiers/object+modifiers.
> 
> If the author then puts the object+modifiers BEFORE
> the verb+modifiers, in this case, putting the
> object+modifiers toward the FRONT (left) of the
> sentence, then he/she is FRONTING. Since it is out of
> his/her default or normal word order pattern, some
> linguists conclude that this denotes PROMINENCE or
> EMPHASIS.
> 
> I think Mitch's question was how can an author intend
> to emphasize a word by FRONTING it if he does it too
> frequently. If he does it too frequently, one then
> must take that into consideration when calculating
> this author's NORMAL word order. (His normal word
> order now appears to include this FRONTING.)
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> Eddie Mishoe
> Pastor
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george
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