[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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