[B-Greek] Wallace's "rule" for PAS.-noun-adj. construction in an equative clause

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 9 13:44:01 EDT 2006


On Oct 8, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Leonard Jayawardena wrote:

> Wallace proposes the following "rule" for an equative clause having  
> a PAS-noun-adjective construction: "In [PAS] + noun + adjective  
> constructions in equative clauses the [PAS] being by nature as  
> definite as the article, implies the article, thus making the  
> adjective(s) following the noun outside the implied article-noun  
> group and, therefore, predicate."

Leonard,

It is difficult to interact with Wallace (the book) since he appears  
to be working within no readily identifiable linguistic framework.  
For that reason this rule appears, to me atlest, to be an adhoc  
musing of someone who knows the language quite well but has an  
unstrutured "creative" approach to dealing with syntax.

What about the leading statement? "[PAS] being by nature as definite  
as the article, implies the article." If that were true then why do  
we find PAS followed by an articular noun nearly many times in the  
GNT? What does the article add to the syntax if then noun following  
PAS is definite without the article?


Elizabeth Kline







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