Prepositions and word order

From: Mike Sangrey (mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 20:02:05 EDT


With Clayton bringing up several sentence structure issues, I thought I might
ask a question along those same lines.
 
Let's say I have a sentence of the form S-Pp-V-Pp.

Should the two prepositional phrases be thought of two equal modifiers of the
Verb? In a picture, it would look like:

   V
  / \
 Pp Pp

What brought this question up and will provide a concrete example is I Timothy
2:11:
    GUNH EN hHSUXIAi MANQANETW EN PASHi hUPOTAGH

I'm toying with B. Ward Powers' thought of GUNH as 'wife', so the translation
I've come up with is:

 A wife should in quietness and complete obedience acquire understanding.

Although I like better 'quiescence' for 'quietness' and 'obedience in all
areas' for 'complete obedience'. That's a different question than the one I'm
asking here.

Thanks ahead of time.

-- 
Mike Sangrey
mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
Landisburg, Pa.
       There is no 'do' in faith, everywhere present within it is 'done'.

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