[B-Greek] John 17.8 Focal intonation
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 10:30:20 EDT 2009
while prooflistening to John I noticed that I accented 17:8 with Focus on ME
σύ με απέστειλας
SY ME APESTEILAS
This kind of thing was done on purpose, though not frequently. Even if ME is
not the long form EME, it is fronted before the verb.
Written accent rules leave "ME" without a high tone (acute accent).
However, I read ME as Focal in its context and therefore as naturally
having its own high tone.
thus it is recorded.
Normally, this kind of 'overriding Focal accent only happens with grave-accented
words in a subjectively determined focal context,
resulting in the word retaining its underlying high tone.
The result is a more pragmatically marked and satifying reading.
This also means that I interpret and read a 'grave' (low tone mark) as
"optionally high tone" rather than "mandatory low tone".
Hopefully, I can get back to some of the opoen threads and questions when this
prooflistening is done.
ERRWSQE
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Randall Buth, PhD
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