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ON THE SO-CALLED PROLEPTIC ACCUSATIVE IN GREEK BY J. GONDA In colloquial speech it is a frequent occurrence that a speaker completes the scheme of a sentence very soon and then strings on a series of additions and afterthoughts. Among the constructions to which this supplementation gives rise is also the so-called pro- leptic accusative-or, in connection with a number of verbs, geni- tive-, which in many languages is a frequent syntactical colloquial- ism. In some modern grammars this type of sentence has been duly recognized and, in the main, adequately described; for instance in (Leumann-)Hofmann's Lateinische Grammatik 1), and especially in the Lateinische Umgangssprache of the latter author 2). Strange to say, authors of Greek grammars have not rarely either neglected this construction-which, however, is in this language of considerable occurrence-or persisted in the incorrect statements of their pre- decessors. In elementary manuals and commentaries 3) the con- struction B 409 yap vaia 6u¡.Lov <x?E?<pe6v è7tOVeL't'o, "he knew in his heart with what his brothel was busied", is explained as an instance of real prolepsis; that is to say: it is the authors' contention ° that the subject of the subordinate clause has, under the influence of
Mnemosyne – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1958
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