[B-Greek] Left order prominence? Or Contextual and focal differences?

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 27 00:52:34 EST 2006


On Dec 26, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Randall Buth wrote:

> Acts 18:18 has prosmeinas with 'sufficient days' as at least one
> argument to the proposition,  the time is probably the salient
> argument because it answers the expectation set up by ETI 'still'. The
> second participle apotaksamenos has a potential complement in
> 'brothers' (its fronting in this reading is non-focal (i.e.
> contextualization). It also potentially fits as a second complement
> with prosmeinas. But that would give prosmeinas two and apotaksamenos
> zero complements.

Which would be totally unfair to apotaksamenos.

Elizabeth Kline







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