From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 03 1996 - 17:51:14 EDT
At 5:11 PM -0500 6/3/96, wes.williams@twcable.com wrote:
> I've begun gathering research material for investigating emphasis
> relating to word order. The first reference I read was "Greek Word
> Order." The author stated that 'the farther the writer moved a word
> to the left in the sentence, the more emphasis it receives.' I found
> this overly simplistic although it has a kernel of truth.
>
> Is there any scholarly treatment of the subject of emphasis and greek
> word order that anyone can recommend?
I assume that you're carrying the investigtion beyond Hellenistic Greek? If
so, there's a marvelous little book (ca. 150 pp.) by J.D.Denniston,
entitled, if I recall aright, simply _Greek Prose Style_; it's published by
Oxford and remains in print as it has been for several decades.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
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