[B-Greek] Apollonius Canon source

Jarek Romanowski romanjaro at poczta.onet.pl
Tue Feb 1 18:37:30 EST 2011


Dear Terry,
I know this "suitable definition".
I tried to find this principle (canon) in his "Syntax" (Apollonii Dyscoli PERI SUNTAXEWS) to find out more about this rule and to "confront" with Wallace book but I have not found.

Jarek Romanowski 
 
"Daniel, Robert S" <rob.daniel at hp.com> napisał(a): 
 > Apollonius of Dyscolus -- is this guy for real? What an apt name for a Koine Greek grammarian! Somebody should tell Prof. Rico's students about this! :-)
 > 
 > Rob
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Terry Cook
 > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:37 PM
 > To: Jarek Romanowski; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
 > Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Apollonius Canon source
 > 
 > Perhaps the following will be suitable definition?
 > 
 > APOLLONIUS' CANON:  "Apollonius of Dyscolus was a second century A.D. Greek 
 > grammarian who stated that, usually when a noun is modified by another noun 
 > in the genitive case, both nouns will have the article prefixed to them or 
 > neither will have the article. When both nouns are anarthrous, usually they 
 > are both mutually definite or both indefinite or both qualitativeâŚ. When the 
 > genitive noun is a proper noun, the article may be absent when the proper 
 > noun precedes or follows the articular noun and also when it is bracketed 
 > between the article and the noun."
 > �"The rule that when one noun governs another noun (i.e., they occur "in 
 > regimen") both either have or lack the article. Named after Apollonius 
 > Dyscolus, a grammarian of the second century a.d. It is usually handled in 
 > the grammars under a discussion of the genitive since the construction 
 > includes a head noun and a genitive noun."
 >      ?(1) Articular:  áźÎ˝  ĎÎżĎĎáżł  ĎινξĎÎŹ  áźĎĎΚν  Ďá˝°  Ďέκνι  Ďοῌ  θξοῌ  =  by 
 > this the children of God are manifest (1Jn 3:10).  (2) Anarthrous: 
 > áźÎłÎąĎΡĎοί,  νῌν  Ďέκνι  θξοῌ  áźĎΟξν  =  dear friends, now we are children of 
 > God (1Jn 3:2).
 > �Apollonius' canon states that in general two nouns in regimen (a noun 
 > qualified by a genitive noun) will both have articles or both are without 
 > them. This rule holds true more than eighty percent of the time. There are 
 > two basic modifications that will explain most exceptions: (1) the head noun 
 > may be anarthrous while the genitive qualifier is articular, especially if 
 > the head noun is the object of a preposition, a predicate nominative, or 
 > vocative; (2) either may be anarthrous if it is a proper name (including 
 > ÎşĎĎΚοĎ) even though the other may be articular.
 > á˝ Ďáźąá˝¸Ď Ďοῌ áźÎ˝Î¸ĎĎĎÎżĎ  =  the son of man (Mt 9:6).
 > ៥ βιĎΚΝξίι Ďοῌ θξοῌ  =  the kingdom of God (Mk 4:26).
 > Ďὸν ÎťĎγον Ďοῌ θξοῌ  =  the word of God (Acts 13:5).
 > 
 > APOLLONIUS' COROLLARY:  "The rule that when one anarthrous noun governs 
 > another anarthrous noun (i.e., they occur "in regimen") both will normally 
 > have the same semantic force, whether definite, indefinite or qualitative. 
 > It is termed a corollary because it is related to Apollonius' canon."
 > �"The corollary to this rule (Apollonius' Corollary), developed by David 
 > Hedges, is that when both nouns are anarthrous, both will usually have the 
 > same semantic force. That is, both will be, for example, definite (D-D), the 
 > most commonly shared semantic force. Somewhat less common is 
 > qualitative-qualitative (Q-Q). The least likely semantic force is 
 > indefinite-indefinite (I-I). Further, although not infrequently was there a 
 > one-step difference between the two substantives (e.g., D-Q), only rarely 
 > did the two nouns differ by two steps (either I-D or D-I). Hedges worked 
 > only in the Pauline letters, but his conclusions are similar to other work 
 > done in the rest of the NT."
 > 
 > 
 > --------------------------------------------------
 > From: "Jarek Romanowski" <romanjaro at poczta.onet.pl>
 > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:15 PM
 > To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
 > Subject: [B-Greek] Apollonius Canon source
 > 
 > > Dear friends at B-Greek,
 > >
 > > Daniel Wallace in his Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics mentioned about 
 > > Apollonius Canon (p. 250-252).
 > > Does somebody know where I can find the original "definition" of this 
 > > canon? Do you know the name and "a place" (chapter, no. of verse etc.) in 
 > > Apollonius work?
 > >
 > > Thank you for help
 > >
 > > Jarek Romanowski
 > >
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