[B-Greek] Col1:6,9: AF hHS hHMERAS

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 5 08:35:43 EDT 2007


6 TOU PARONTOS EIS hUMAS, KAQWS KAI EN PANTI TWi KOSMWi ESTIN KARPOFOROUMENON KAI AUCANOMENON KAQWS KAI EN hUMIN, AF' hHS hHMERAS HKOUSATE KAI EPEGNWTE THN XARIN TOU QEOU EN ALHQEIAi

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9 DIA TOUTO KAI hHMEIS, AF' hHS hHMERAS HKOUSAMEN, OU PAUOMEQA hUPER hUMWN PROSEUXOMENOI KAI AITOUMENOI, hINA PLHRWQHTE THN EPIGNWSIN TOU QELHMATOS AUTOU EN PASHi SOFIAi KAI SUNESEI PNEUMATIKHi 

The hWi would introduce a clause the specifying the period of time or event since the occurance of which consideration would be given.  Without its presence the specification is simply attached to what precedes.  

"Attraction" is a term used to describe the conformance of the case, gender or number of a word to the case (etc) of another word in the context when it really should be different according to syntactic rules.  It would seem that the comments you cite by Murray Harris rely upon some other passage since there seems to be none here -- the subjects are in the nominative, the predicate objects are in the accusative, the genitives are appropriate, and the objects of the prepositions are in the case required by the prepositions.  

george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen Baldwin <stbaldwi at hotmail.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2007 12:25:29 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Col1:6,9: AF hHS hHMERAS


Ladies and Gentlemen:
I was wondering whether anyone could provide some information or references 
on the above construction.
Zerwick/Grosvenor (GAGNT) say that it is a shortened form of
APO THS hHMERAS hHi
and provide no further information.

Murray Harris says that it is an idiomatic form of AF hHMERAS hHi where the 
dative singular rel. pronoun hHi has been attracted to the case of its 
antecedent and the result of that in turn transferred to the relative 
clause.
This is at least an explanation of sorts but leaves one thirsting for more.

There seems to be an awful lot of attraction going on -- and being 
morphologically-minded, I'd like to know more. If there's anything out there 
that will shed more light on attraction in general (err in a linguistic 
context :-)), I'd be curious to read more...

Thanks
Stephen Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com

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