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Re: [GMark] Mark 1:33

From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT comcast.net>
To: Kata Markon <gmark AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [GMark] Mark 1:33
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 22:26:08 -0500

Norman Goos wrote:

> The verbal set, HN...EPISUNHGMENH, seems to be a periphrastic construction
> implying a pluperfect sense. What perplexes me is the phrase hOLH hH POLIS
> and the position of the adjective. Wallace (p. 307) calls this
> construction (A-Art-N) the first predicate position. If that is the case,
> what is the subject of which something is being predicated?

POLIS. All of (the whole of) the city was ... .

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson
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Jeffrey B. Gibson
Chicago, Illinois
e-mail jgibson000 AT comcast.net

[GMark] Mark 1:33, Norman Goos, 07/26/2003
- Re: [GMark] Mark 1:33, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 07/26/2003