[B-Greek] 2COR. 11:1 MOU & AFROSUNHS

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 4 17:13:56 EST 2010


<M.E. Thrall (2Cor ICC v.2 pp. 658-659 ) suggests
 that AFROSUNHS is  "important" because it appears
 in the middle of the "sense-unit".  Not  
sure what to make of that. I have never encountered a linguistic  
argument that the middle of a sentence ("sense-unit"?) is a position  
used to mark an important constituent.>
 
I have heard it argued that a Greek word is emphatic if
it appears at the beginning of a sentence, or at the end of a sentence,
or anywhere which is out of the ordinary, even though Greek word order
is ordinarily unordinary.  If we are to add that a word is emphatic or
important or in focus if it appears in the middle of a sentence, I fear we have a 
falsifiability problem.  How would you ever prove that AFROSUNHS
is NOT in focus.   

Mark L


FWSFOROS MARKOS

--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net> wrote:


From: Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
Subject: [B-Greek] 2COR. 11:1 MOU & AFROSUNHS
To: "greek B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 2:52 PM




2Cor. 11:1 Ὄφελον ἀνείχεσθέ μου μικρόν  
τι ἀφροσύνης· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀνέχεσθέ  
μου.

2COR. 11:1 OFELON ANEICESQE MOU MIKRON TI AFROSUNHS· ALLA KAI ANECESQE  
MOU.

Two questions, the first on syntax ...
There has been some disagreement about how to construe the first MOU  
here, either with the verb directly (H.Alford) or with MIKRON TI along  
side of AFROSUNHS (H.A.W. Meyer) or with AFROSUNHS (M.E.Thrall) . And  
then we have ALLA KAI ANECESQE MOU which is a little cryptic. Do we  
supply a substantive e.g., AFROSUNHS and attach MOU to the substantive  
or attach MOU directly to the verb?

... the second question is about word order ...

M.E. Thrall (2Cor ICC v.2 pp. 658-659 ) suggests that AFROSUNHS is  
"important" because it appears in the middle of the "sense-unit".  Not  
sure what to make of that. I have never encountered a linguistic  
argument that the middle of a sentence ("sense-unit"?) is a position  
used to mark an important constituent. On the other hand, AFROSUNHS as  
a clause final constituent might be in some sense marked as  
"important". There is some disagreement about the relative status of  
clause final constituents. Some maintain that clause final position is  
used for focus constituents. I would suggest that AFROSUNHS is in  
focus, so to a certain extent I am agreeing with M.E. Thrall but we  
don't arrive there by the same road.

Elizabeth Kline




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