[B-Greek] Genitive vs Adjective
Joseph Weaks
j.weaks at tcu.edu
Sat May 28 01:39:37 EDT 2005
On May 27, 2005, at 11:47 PM, James Tauber wrote:
> On 27/05/2005, at 11:30 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
>>
>> There is a very prominent school of thought in America where
>> everything is
>> syntax and syntax is everything. I have forgotten the name of it :-)))
>
> Well, as a realizational morphologist, I hardly subscribe to that
> view. But I am puzzled by what you would consider syntax to be if
> changing word order isn't syntax.
Realizational Morphology concerns itself with how one
defines/models/predicts the relationship between inflected/realized
forms and underlying lemmas. Not sure how this has anything to do with
whether you would call shifting word order in Greek an issue of Syntax.
When I hear someone say changing the order of a word may not have
anything to do with syntax, I can agree with them in that the change
does not alter the part-of-speech & syntactical function of the word in
the clause. For some words, this would be the case. For some, it
clearly would not be not the case.
As Elizabeth mentions, often word placement can have other
non-syntactical effects, but I would add that some word order anomalies
seem to have absolutely zero implication on any level--in semantics, in
mood, in contextual flow--zero.
My 2¢,
Joe Weaks
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