[b-greek] RE: Romans 2:9

From: Moon-Ryul Jung (moon@sogang.ac.kr)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 10:42:41 EST



> >>
> >> QLIYIS KAI STENOCWRIA *EPI* PASAN YUCHN ANQRWPOU
> >> TOU KATERGAZOMENOU TO KAKON
> >> IOUDAIOU TE PRWTON KAI hELLHNOS
> >>
> >> What does PRWTON modify here?

[Carl]
I still don't think any "deep structure" is required to
> understand how PRWTON is working here; rather I think that in each instance
> PRWTON functions to limit/qualify/modify the word it immediately follows; I
> certainly don't see how the form IOUDAIWi or IOUDAIOU can depend upon
> PRWTON. I can see (through a glass darkly) how that "deep structure" or
> ellipsis is being conceived, but that still seems to me an excessively
> intricate explanation of a rather simple contextual relationship between a
> universal assertion PANTI/PASAN YUCHN ANQRWPOU/PANTI and a distributive
> IOUDAI/... TE KAI hELLHN/... And those who prefer that explanation are
> welcome to it.
> --

So, do you mean that adverbial PRWTON modifies genitive IOUDAIOU, BECAUSE
genitive is a sort of adverbial? I can accept that PRWTON modifies
IOUDAIWi, because dative IOUDAIWi is adverbial in its function.

*** Adverbials can modify verbs, adjectives, and adverbials. *******

Moon
Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea

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