[B-Greek] Circumstantial Participle

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 12 17:25:20 EDT 2008


On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> [1] I have intentionally confused two different categories here.
> Background is the answer to foreground, focus is a different issue,
> in some frameworks focus is the answer to topic, i.e. background/
> foreground, topic/focus. Topic here is a text linguistic category,
> and it doesn't equate with my use of topic and off topic in the
> preceding paragraphs.


ANABAS EIS hUYOS HiCMALWTEUSEN
AICMALWSIAN, EDWKEN DOMATA TOIS ANQRWPOIS.

This is somewhat unorthodox. In *clause level* analysis TOPIC is the  
information that is already known, COMMENT is the new information and  
FOCUS is a constituent within the COMMENT. However, in a compound  
sentence with multiple clauses I have taken some liberties by  
identifying the entire final clause EDWKEN DOMATA TOIS ANQRWPOIS as  
in focus treating it as a single constituent. This shouldn't really  
cause any pain for linguists who are in the habit borrowing and  
modifying existing frameworks to suit their agenda.


Elizabeth Kline







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