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CANCELLED The Meaning and Function of Greek Relative Clauses CANCELLED

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Author: John Tuggy

Year: 2025

Track(s):
  • Communication and Context
  • Remote Presenter

Abstract

Greek and other European languages commonly use relative clauses for back-grounding information.

Because Doctor Luke was a person trained in Greek literature, and used Greek in its normal meaning and functions, all illustrations will come from his book of Acts.
Kandozhi has a construction that grammatically appears to be very similar to European relative clauses, but has a totally different function.

So, what is going on at the semantic level? There seems to be three categories of meaning of relative clauses: 1) identification, 2) description, and 3) restriction.