[B-Greek] Wallace's "rule" for PAS.-noun-adj. construction in an equative clause
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 9 14:58:39 EDT 2006
On Oct 9, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Elizabeth Kline 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?
If Wallace intends us to understand that PAS makes the following noun
definite ONLY "In [PAS] + noun + adjective constructions in equative
clauses" but not in other PAS NOUN constructions, what would a
lingust say about a rule like this?
Elizabeth Kline
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