[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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