[B-Greek] Is PALIN in Heb 1:6 ambiguous?

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 11 17:40:42 EST 2006


On Dec 11, 2006, at 2:08 PM, George F Somsel wrote:

> Also surveying the uses of PALIN shows no tendency to be  
> postpositive so its position would seem to be deliberate.

I think the notion post-positive is somewhat different from freedom  
of placement observed with some adverbs which are clause or sentence  
level modifiers. I would agree we don't have a lot of evidence of  
this for PALIN but Wisdom 14:1 is some evidence. If we address the  
question as one of syntactic function, rather than limiting ourselves  
to a single word PALIN, I think we can show that a discourse marker  
like PALIN need not be located in the clause initial position even  
though that is the preferred location.

I am willing to go either way with PALIN in Heb. 1:6.

Elizabeth Kline







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