[B-Greek] Position of Prepositional Phrases in Paul
Kristan Slack
kristan at kristan.org
Mon May 17 01:17:31 EDT 2010
Hi all,
This is my first post on the list. I'm at student at Moore College in Sydney and have been doing a little research on whether Paul has his own idiolectic placement of prepositional phrases. In particular I've been trying to isolate prepositional phrases which sit between a noun and come before the verb to which the noun is related (that is, NOUN + PREP + VERB) - such that the preposition is sandwiched between the two items).
An example is found in Romans 5:8
CRISTOS hUPER hHMWN APEQANEN
I've tried (to no avail) to find information about the placement of prepositional phrases (both in general and of this particular kind), both in searching the b-greek archives but also in grammars.
I was just wondering if the list had wisdom about this kind of usage?
(I've noticed a few things myself: it occurs with EIMI verbs, especially in John; 1/3 of the ones I found across the NT are with passives or middle forms).
My more general question is, has anything been written regarding the positioning of prepositional phrases, or of idiolect and prepositional phrases?
thanks in advance,
Kristan Slack
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