[B-Greek] Wallace's "rule" for PAS.-noun-adj. construction in an equative clause
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 9 14:04:21 EDT 2006
There were too many errors in my first post to let it stand so here
it is again.
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 at least, to be an adhoc
musing of someone who knows the language quite well but has an
unstructured "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 numerous times in the
GNT? What does the article add to the syntax if the noun following
PAS is definite without the article?
Elizabeth Kline
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