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Document Details : Title: The Element of Surprise Subtitle: Mirativity and the Coreferential Genitive Absolute in the LXX Author(s): DANIEL, Andrew Glen Journal: Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies Volume: 56 Date: 2023 Pages: 113-129 DOI: 10.2143/JSCS.56.0.3292866 Abstract : Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of philologically in formed investigations into the nature of the Greek of the Septuagint. Linguistic studies are less common, however. The coreferential genitive absolute is illustra tive. Despite its frequent occurrence outside of the Septuagint, gramma rians continue to view this syntax as outré. Within the conceptual framework of Rele vance Theory, this article applies the linguistic notion of mirativity to the corefe rential use of the genitive absolute. Mirativity, which signals psychological surprise, offers a typologically informed and cognitively compelling account of why a translator would opt for this non-obligatory syntax. More than just ex plaining an odd syntactic structure and its exegetical signifi cance, this article models a linguistically informed philological analysis. |
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