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ἀνθ’ ὧν in syntax trees

Posted: November 15th, 2014, 4:01 pm
by Jonathan Robie
I would like to discuss an open issue on the representation of ἀνθ’ ὧν in syntax trees. Here's a sentence where it is used:
Luke 1:20 wrote:ἀνθ’ ὧν οὐκ ἐπίστευσας τοῖς λόγοις μου, οἵτινες πληρωθήσονται εἰς τὸν καιρὸν αὐτῶν

Re: ἀνθ’ ὧν in syntax trees

Posted: November 15th, 2014, 4:10 pm
by cwconrad
I haven't even looked this up in BDAG, but my instinctive sense is that ἀνθῶν should be written as one word, like ἱνατί and διότι: "because," "for the reason that," "on account of because ... ", "because of the fact that ... " This is where I have trouble with the doctrine that "choice means difference." I think "Six of one and half a dozen of another"; I think rhetorical variation.

Re: ἀνθ’ ὧν in syntax trees

Posted: November 18th, 2014, 1:37 am
by Stephen Carlson
For what it's worth, BDAG does not have ἀνθ' ὧν (or ἀνθῶν) as a separate entry, but it does list this under sense (4) of ἀντί as
W. attraction of the rel. ἀνθ' ὧν in return for which = because
At some point these collocations become particles in their own right.