Re: [b-greek] Re: time flies like an arrow and the notion of sentence

From: Jonathan Robie (Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 17:38:15 EDT

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At 03:01 PM 7/27/2001 -0400, Chet Creider wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Consider the following two interpretations:<br><br>
(1) I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart / I can be forever happy<br>
(2) I have no feelings whatsoever / when we're apart I can be forever happy<br><br>
Calling the larger unit which contains the two smaller units a clause<br>
rather than a sentence is fine if you allow clauses to be self-embedding.<br>
If not (my unspoken assumption -- I should have mentioned this), then<br>
another unit is needed. </blockquote><br>
I think we agree, then.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>&nbsp;I don't think many linguists would object to<br>
the former analysis (I don't myself), but the traditional analysis,<br>
considering clause as a minimal unit is also acceptable, I think, for<br>
English, and for that subset of NT Greek which is like English (i.e.<br>
participial phrases, relative clauses, INA complements, etc.).&nbsp; </blockquote><br>
Again, I think we agree. For me, no model is the One True Account, so it doesn't bother me that there are models that don't think in terms of sentences.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>But the more paratactic connections are the ones I'm unsure about.</blockquote><br>
Main Entry: <b>para.tax.is<br>
Pronunciation: </b>&quot;par-&amp;-'tak-s&amp;s<br>
<b>Function:</b> <i>noun<br>
</i><b>Etymology: </b>New Latin, from Greek, act of placing side by side, from paratassein to place side by side, from para- + tassein to arrange<br>
<b>Date: </b>circa 1842<br>
: the placing of clauses or phrases one after another without coordinating or subordinating connectives<br><br>
So do you mean the relationship between adjacent clauses with no coordinating or subordinating connective?<br>
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