On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:09:52 EST GregStffrd@aol.com writes: > In a message dated 03/01/2001 9:23:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, CEP7 > writes: > > This is interestingly because Dixon, Harner, Kuehne, > Robertson, and Wallace all came to the conclusion > that the majority (80%) of the anarthrous > preverbal predicate nominatives were qualitative, > and only rarely verbal. See the discussion in Wallace, > 256-270. > > Philip B. Harner, Qualitative Anarthrous Predicate Nouns: Mark > 15:39 and John 1:1, JBL 92 (1973): 75-87. > > C. Kuehne, A Postscript to Colwells Rule and John 1:1, Journal of > Theology 15 [1975] 22. > > Paul Stephen Dixon, The Significance of the Anarthrous Predicate > Nominative in John (Th.M. thesis, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1975). > > > Charles E. Powell, Ph.D. >> > > > Dear Charles: > > As a prelude to the discussion, assuming you have not read my book, > I do not believe the above sources provide any evidence that so-called > qualitative nouns are not simply definite or indefinite nouns, the > qualities of which receive emphasis by means of fronting. Fronting > accomplishes this not only with PNs, but with terms of different > grammatical cases, too. > > Best regards, > > Greg Stafford In my thesis I found the following (taken from the conclusion chapter of the thesis): ------------------------ The use of the anarthrous predicate nominative in John is significant. It is qualitative in 65 out of 74 occurrences, or 88% probability. When the anarthrous predicate nominative precedes the verb it is qualitatative in 50 of 53 occurrences, or 94% probability. When it follows the verb the anarthrous predicate nominative is qualitative 13 of 19 occurrences, or 68%. ----------------------- In every case I was looking for the leading nuance of the noun and assumed it could be either definite, indefinite or qualitative, but only one of these. I never considered that a predicate nominative would receive definite or indefiniteness emphasis simply by fronting it. I would like to see that demonstrated. Rather, I considered the nuance of each predicate nominative , not on the basis of its location within the sentence, but upon other contextual considerations. Some posit the idea that a predicate noun can be both indefinite and qualitative. I reject this notion and assume the author had one particular nuance in mind. I have seen no evidence to the contrary. Paul Dixon --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu