The word order of the Gospel of Luke [[electronic resource] ] : its foregrounded messages / / Ivan Shing Chung Kwong

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807979403321
• Autore: Kwong Ivan Shing Chung
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, c2005
• ISBN: 1-283-19963-7; 9786613199638; 0-567-43990-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Collana: Library of New Testament studies ; ; 298; Studies in New Testament Greek ; ; 12
• Disciplina: 226.4; 226.4/0487
• Soggetti: Greek language, Biblical - Word order
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I INTRODUCTION; Introduction; Chapter 1 RECENT STUDIES ON THE TOPIC OF WORD ORDER; Chapter 2 STUDYING THE WORD ORDER OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE: A METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATION; Part II UNMARKED WORD ORDERS OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE; Chapter 3 RELATIVE POSITIONS OF MAIN CONSTITUENTS IN LUKAN CLAUSES; Chapter 4 THE POSITIONS OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL ADJUNCTS IN LUKAN CLAUSES; Part III MARKED WORD ORDERS OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE AND FOREGROUNDED MESSAGES; Chapter 5 INDIRECT SPEECHES IN LUKE AND THE DISCIPLES' UNDERSTANDING OF JESUSChapter 6 HANDING OVER JESUS: A CONSIDERATION OF PILATE'S ACTION THROUGH THE CLAUSE STRUCTURES IN LUKE 23.1-25; Appendix 6 A INCIDENTS OF REJ(C)P AND RSC(J)P IN ACTS; Appendix 6B THE CP ORDER IN LUKE 23.16,22 AND 22.54; Chapter 7 TEMPORAL CLAUSE COMPLEXES AND FOREGROUNDED MESSAGES IN LUKE; Chapter 8 GIVEN-NEW INFORMATION UNITS IN LUKE 22.24-38 AND ITS PROMINENT MESSAGES; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORD ORDERS IN LUKAN CLAUSES; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of ; Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: This work studies the word order of the Gospel of Luke and some of its prominent messages with consideration of systemic functional linguistic theories. The first part of the work focuses on the relative positions of four constituents (subject, predicate, complement and circumstantial adjunct) of different types of Lukan clauses (independent, dependent, infinitival, participial and embedded clause). The result gives some unmarked (typical or common) word order patterns and some marked word order patterns of all Lukan clauses. The second part traces the foregrounded messages of the Gospel based