are there other broken prepositional phrases in the New Testament?Luke 1:65 wrote:Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐπὶ πάντας φόβος τοὺς περιοικοῦντας αὐτούς·
Are there other broken prepositional phrases?
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Are there other broken prepositional phrases?
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Γελᾷ δ' ὁ μωρός, κἄν τι μὴ γέλοιον ᾖ
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)
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Re: Are there other broken prepositional phrases?
How do you define "broken prepositional phrase"?
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Re: Are there other broken prepositional phrases?
Loosely.Jonathan Robie wrote:How do you define "broken prepositional phrase"?
This question is being asked in the context of questioning some of the "basics" of Greek that I learnt as a beginner, but which don't necessarily hold true in practice. One of them was that a preposition ca not be separated from the nominal phrase that follows it. Apposition seems from the examples I've found to question that.
Is it always true that a preposition's nominal phrase always follows it without change of gender or number without anythibg intervening? Are prepositional phrases ever followed by relative clause?
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Re: Are there other broken prepositional phrases?
Discontinuities in phrases is fairly common, including prepositional phrases.
Obviously, this happens with post-positives:
Obviously, this happens with post-positives:
Matthew 1:12 wrote:Μετὰ δὲ τὴν μετοικεσίαν Βαβυλῶνος
But you also see it in other places like these:Matthew 3:1 wrote:Ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις
Matthew 1:20 wrote:τὸ γὰρ ἐν αὐτῇ γεννηθὲν ἐκ πνεύματός ἐστιν ἁγίου
Matthew 8:8 wrote:Κύριε, οὐκ εἰμὶ ἱκανὸς ἵνα μου ὑπὸ τὴν στέγην εἰσέλθῃς
Matthew 10:11 wrote: εἰς ἣν δ’ ἂν πόλιν ἢ κώμην εἰσέλθητε
Are these broken by your definition? I haven't looked through most of these, but I'm attaching a file with prepositional phrases that contain discontinuities in word order, not all of these are broken by your definition, and most involve post-positives, but there are still many interesting examples to explore. In general, Greek phrases are broken up more frequently than you might think.Mark 2:21 wrote:αἴρει τὸ πλήρωμα ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ τὸ καινὸν τοῦ παλαιοῦ
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Re: Are there other broken prepositional phrases?
Thanks, I've had a look through them. My general conclusion about language learning is that students learn despite what they're taught.Jonathan Robie wrote:In general, Greek phrases are broken up more frequently than you might think.
Γελᾷ δ' ὁ μωρός, κἄν τι μὴ γέλοιον ᾖ
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)