[B-Greek] Question about the third person pronoun in this sentence

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Dec 29 09:41:34 EST 2008



Carl W. Conrad
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On Monday, December 29, 2008, at 09:19AM, "Mike Noel" <mike at vnoel.com> wrote:
>> I think you are trying to carry the reference of AUTHS too far away. It
>> normally construes with what it follows (less commonly precedes)
>> immediately. So here: "sees the face of HER lord." -- i.e. the lord of her.
>
>Well this seems so simple now.
>
>This is how I'm breaking it down:
>
>There are two ways that AUTHS  has a connection to other parts of the
>sentence.  One is as a pronoun, the other is as genitive case.  As a
>pronoun AUTHS is related to hAUTH (indicated by gender and number) but
>the genitive relationship is with the noun immediately preceding
>AUTHS.
>
>Is my thinking correct?

Yes, you are right on target.

Carl W. Conrad


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