[B-Greek] demonstrative pronouns
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Sat Dec 10 19:47:53 EST 2005
It would be interesting to do a study of pronomial reference for John
and see what you come up with.
As we all know, pronominal refernce can be very confusing. While
there may be linguistic habits that are wide spread, such difference
are often tokens of idiolect rather than dialect. Still, here you
might revise the idea of "near" and "far." The stand point of the
evangelist, or the implied author, is that of omniscient narrator. So
he is equally present with all his characters. In this case
"hUPERHTAI" is more remote grammatically and so the rule of "near/
far" can be seen to apply.
Yancy
Yancy Smith
Y.W.Smith at tcu.edu
Brite Divinity School
Texas Christian University
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