Re: What is a Greek Sentence?  From: Micheal Palmer ( Date: Wed
Jun 04 1997 - 01:00:54 EDT  >Can anyone provide a rigorous
definition of a Koine Greek sentence >exclusively in terms
>sentence to a clause >in terms of syntax. >you are looking
>indicators mark   Part One: A hellenistic Greek sentence is a
set of interrelated clauses. This set may have only one member,
or many. One or more of the member clauses may be eliptical if
the discourse context provides the necessary constituents to
complete them. A sentence which contains only one clause may
also be eliptical if the same condition is met.  Part Two:
"Interrelated" in Part One must be understood in a tightly
constrained way. The clauses must be interconnected either 1) by
the use of complementizers (such as OTI) or conjunctions (such
as KAI, DE, and hINA), or 2) by some of the member clauses
taking a non-finite form (infinitives or participles) as
modifiers of, or constituents of another clause. Of course, both
of these strategies may be used in the same