From: Moon-Ryul Jung (moon@sogang.ac.kr)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 04:49:34 EDT
> on 7/25/01 7:51 AM, Joe Crane wrote:
>
> > I looked in Daniel Wallace's "Greek Grammar beyond the Basics" and noted that
> > Wallace said that I Peter 1:3-12 is one sentence.
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> Welcome to the b-greek. Now for a non-answer to your question.
>
> About five years ago I asked Michael Palmer to define in a rigorous fashion
> what a follower of late-Chomskyism (Chomsky '95) would call a Hellenistic
> Greek sentence.
>
> I truly appreciated the effort Michael Palmer put into this. However, he
> convinced me more than anything that we should dump the term sentence and
> just talk about clauses. A clause has a fairly stable definition if you
> define it recursively. The sentence is not really so easy to define.
>
To me, the notion of a sentence seems quite plausible.
A sentence is the clause which is not contained in any other clause.
When the reader encounters a phrase, it is expected to be
a constituent (e.g. subject, predicate, complements, or adjuncts)
of a clause. When the reader encounters a clause, it is either a
constituent of another clause or not. If it is not a constituent of
another clause, it is a sentence. A discourse consists of sentences.
What do you think?
Moon
Moon-Ryul Jung
Associate Professor
Dept of Digital Media
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea
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