[b-greek] RE: Constituents in the "wrong places"?

From: Moon-Ryul Jung (moon@sogang.ac.kr)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 09:16:12 EST


> >
> > Mark 4.30b reads:
> >
> > EN TINI AUTHN PARABOLHi QWMEN;
> >
> > AUTHN, the object of the verb, is placed within
> > the noun phrase TINI PARABOLHi. So, AUTHN which is
> > not part of the noun phrase is placed within it.
> >
> > I can understand free word order, but this example
> > seems to be more than free word order. Can you explain
> > what is going on here?
>
> Yes, it is a fairly extreme case of free word order that noun phrases are
> cut into pieces by other phrases or parts of phrases. But it happens quite
> often in Greek. I am not aware of other languages that do this kind of
> thing, so for a linguist, it is an unusual phenomenon to see.
>
> Iver Larsen

Would

(a) EN TINI AUTHN PARABOLHi QWMEN;
be different in emphasis from
(b) EN TINI PARABOLHi AUTHN QWMEN; ?

Would (a) give more emphasis on AUTHN, being placed earlier in the
sentence
than that of (b)? If so, the Greek speakers would have been so
"impatient".

Moon
Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ,
Seoul, Korea

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