[B-Greek] Acts 21:15-16 syntax

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon May 14 16:45:05 EDT 2007


See the message that I forwarded to the list for Chet Creider
"[B-Greek] Internally-headed relative clauses"

http://tinyurl.com/3dxhut

On May 14, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> ACTS 21:15 META DE TAS hHMERAS TAUTAS EPISKEUASAMENOI ANEBAINOMEN EIS
> hIEROSOLUMA:  16 SUNHLQON DE KAI TWN MAQHTWN APO KAISAREIAS SUN
> hHMIN, AGONTES PAR' hWi XENISQWMEN MNASWNI TINI KUPRIWi, ARCAIWi
> MAQHTHi.
>
> v.16b AGONTES PAR' hWi XENISQWMEN MNASWNI TINI KUPRIWi, ARCAIWi
> MAQHTHi has been explained in various ways; headless relative,
> relative clause with an internal head, attraction, etc. If my memory
> is correct, someone pointed out recently that attraction is just a
> poor way of explaining what is actually the case marking the function
> of the relative clause within a higher level construction.
>
> I am leaning toward a headless relative here and don't any need to
> explain the dative case, since the entire string of datives go with
> PAR'.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Elizabeth Kline
>
>
>
>
> ---
> B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek
> B-Greek mailing list
> B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/





More information about the B-Greek mailing list