[B-Greek] 2COR. 11:1 MOU & AFROSUNHS
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 4 17:26:18 EST 2010
On Jan 4, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Mark Lightman wrote:
> 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.
We need to keep sentence and clause sort out here. A sentence with
multiple clauses may have more than one focus constituent as well as
multiple "important" constituents (different issues, "important" and
focus). My very tentative analysis that AFROSUNHS might be in focus
presumes that we have a topic focus articulation in the clause, which
isn't at all obvious. In fact the whole proposition might be in focus.
I was just suggesting one line of linguistic argument which might lead
to M.E. Thrall's conclusion. I not at all convinced that it is a sound
linguistic argument.
Elizabeth Kline
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