[B-Greek] 1COR. 11:23 APO TOU KURIOU

Steve Runge srunge at logos.com
Sat Oct 18 10:30:31 EDT 2008


Elizabeth,
 
Two things. First, I think you are correct in perceiving EGW doing something, it is just a matter of what. I construe it as a contrastive topic, i.e. Simon Dik's P1, or Buth's contextualizing constituent. It sets the stage for the clause that follows. It is less "to balance hUMIN" (contra Rob.-Plummer) as to switch from the Corinthians and their behavior as the basic topic in the preceding clauses. I recognize that Paul was the *grammatical* subject of the final three clauses of v. 22, but these clauses are less about him and more about the Corinthians. The contrastive topic makes the shift in subject matter from 'what they do' to 'what he has received' stand out more. However, it is not the most important information of the clause, what he has received is.
 
Second, Helma Dik overlooks some significant considerations in her analysis from what I can tell, though I have not read it cover to cover. Christo Van der Merwe claimed that unless the cognitive processing of information is taken into account, satisfactory explanations would remain elusive. He is right. I am working on an introductory discourse grammar that devotes a significant chunk to introducing these issues, but it is still in the editing process. There are indeed principles governing word order, and the classic grammarians (BDF, Robertson, Blass, etc) internalized most of these, but lacked an adequate framework to communicate them. The result is contradictory claims. Most of them are correct to some extent, but the essentially describe different pieces of the elephant. I demonstrate this in my introduction. Their insights form the point of departure into linguistics for the grammar.
 
Regards,
 
Steve Runge
 

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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Elizabeth Kline
Sent: Fri 10/17/2008 3:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] 1COR. 11:23 APO TOU KURIOU




On Oct 17, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

>
> 1COR. 11:23 EGW GAR PARELABON APO TOU KURIOU, hO KAI PAREDWKA hUMIN,
> hOTI ...
>
> EGW is pragmatically marked (clause initial) and inherently empathic
> with a finite verb PARELABON. So we might say that it is doubly marked
> here.



Rob.- Plummer (1Cor ICC) argue that EGW is reqired here to 'ballance' 
hUMIN,

That is a good point. However, I am not sure it totally eliminates my 
notion of pragmatic marking. Keeping in mind Paul's preoccupation with 
his authority and his direct encounter with the risen CRISTWi, I have 
a difficult time discounting significance of EGW hanging out there on 
the left margin. This amounts to a sort of probability argument.

Elizabeth Kline




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