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

From: Polycarp66@aol.com
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 09:32:17 EST


In a message dated 3/13/2002 9:16:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,
moon@sogang.ac.kr writes:

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".
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Perhaps this is a question some of those who are into discourse analysis
could tackle. It would seem to me that any time a word is displaced from its
normal position it would tend to call attention to itself. Nevertheless, it
could be that this is such a common phenomenon that it would not tend to call
attention to itself.

gfsomsel

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