From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 11:39:08 EST
At 10:42 AM -0500 2/25/02, Moon-Ryul Jung wrote:
>> >>
>> >> QLIYIS KAI STENOCWRIA *EPI* PASAN YUCHN ANQRWPOU
>> >> TOU KATERGAZOMENOU TO KAKON
>> >> IOUDAIOU TE PRWTON KAI hELLHNOS
>> >>
>> >> What does PRWTON modify here?
>
>[Carl]
>I still don't think any "deep structure" is required to
>> understand how PRWTON is working here; rather I think that in each instance
>> PRWTON functions to limit/qualify/modify the word it immediately follows; I
>> certainly don't see how the form IOUDAIWi or IOUDAIOU can depend upon
>> PRWTON. I can see (through a glass darkly) how that "deep structure" or
>> ellipsis is being conceived, but that still seems to me an excessively
>> intricate explanation of a rather simple contextual relationship between a
>> universal assertion PANTI/PASAN YUCHN ANQRWPOU/PANTI and a distributive
>> IOUDAI/... TE KAI hELLHN/... And those who prefer that explanation are
>> welcome to it.
>> --
>
>So, do you mean that adverbial PRWTON modifies genitive IOUDAIOU, BECAUSE
>genitive is a sort of adverbial? I can accept that PRWTON modifies
>IOUDAIWi, because dative IOUDAIWi is adverbial in its function.
>
>*** Adverbials can modify verbs, adjectives, and adverbials. *******
Actually I think this construction, EPI PASAN YUCHN ANQRWPOU TOU
KATERGAZOMENOU TO KAKON is pretty much an equivalent of PANTI ANQRWPWi TWi
hAMARTANONTI.
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