Paul Danove, «le&gw Melding In The Septuagint And New Testament», Vol. 16 (2003) 19-31
This study investigates the grammatical phenomenon, le&gw melding,
which arises in particular contexts in which two or three verbs of communication,
one of which usually is le&gw, govern the same object complement.
The study establishes the syntactic, semantic, and lexical requirements of
the verbs of communication that participate in le&gw melding, develops the
distinctive characteristics of this phenomenon, and considers its implications
for translation and the formulation of lexicon entries for the Greek
words of the Septuagint and New Testament.
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ΛÎγω Melding in the Septuagint and New Testament
both verbs have the same lexical realization of their second complements:
either the initial verb of communication (2), the following verb of com-
munication (3), or neither verb (3) but never both verbs have their second
complement lexically realized.10 The restriction even holds in the three
occurrences of three linked verbs that permit the same lexical realization
of their second complement: only the first (1) or second (2) but never two
verbs have their second complement lexically realized.11 Thus, in these
514 occurrences, two or three linked verbs that permit the same lexical
realization of their second complement never appear with more than
one of these complements lexically realized; and both or all three verbs
govern the same concluding third complement. This indicates that their
syntactic, semantic, and lexical requirements not merely are linked as in
coordination but are melded in such a manner that both or all three verbs
lexically realize only one first, second, and third complement as if they
constituted a single verb.
The same restriction, however, does not extend to the second comple-
ment when the linked verbs do not permit the same lexical realization
of their second complements. This appears with 77 occurrences of λέγω
melding in which the initial verb, unlike λέγω, permits the lexical reali-
zation of its second complement only as an accusative case noun phrase
(N+acc), a genitive case noun phrase (N+gen), or an á¼Î½ prepositional
phrase (P/á¼Î½); and the final verb, like λέγω, permits its lexical realization
only as a dative case noun phrase (N+dat) or a Ï€Ïός prepositional phrase
(P/Ï€Ïός). In the 76 occurrences of two such linked verbs, either the initial
verb (70 occurrences) or second verb (2 occurrences) or neither verb (2
occurrences) or both verbs (2 occurrences) may appear with their second
complement lexically realized.12 The one occurrence of λέγω melding
Second complement of the initial verb lexically realized and second complement
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of the second verb null (2 occurrences in NT): ἀποκÏίνομαι + φημί (N+dat: Luke 23:3)
and ἀπαγγÎλλω + ὀμνÏω (N+dat: Heb 6:13). Second complement of the initial verb null
and second complement of the second verb lexically realized (3 occurrences in LXX):
ἀποκÏίνομαι + ἀπαγγέλλω (N+dat: Jdth 6:17); ἀπαγγÎλλω + [a second] ἀπαγγÎλλω (1 Sam
10:16a; 22:22). Second complement of the initial verb lexically realized and second comple-
ment of the second verb null (3 occurrences = 2 in LXX and 1 in NT): ἀποκÏίνομαι + φημί
(Matt 8:8); ἀποκÏίνομαι + Ï€ÏοσλÎγω (2 Macc 7:8); ἀπαγγέλλω + [a second] ἀπαγγÎλλω
(Judg 14:12).
Second complement of the initial verb lexically realized and second complement of
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the second and third verb null (1 occurrence in LXX): ἀποκÏίνομαι + λÎγω + λέγω (P/Ï€Ïός:
Gen 23:10). Second complement of the initial and third verb null and second complement
of the second verb lexically realized (2 occurrences in NT): ἀποκÏίνομαι + λÎγω + λÎγω
(N+dat: Matt 22:1); ἀποκÏίνομαι + λέγω + λέγω (P/Ï€Ïός: Luke 14:3).
Second complement of verb of communication lexically realized and second comple-
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ment of λέγω null (70 occurrences = 38 in LXX and 32 in NT): δÎομαι (N+gen: Deut 3:23;
1 Kgs 8:47; 2 Chr 6:37; Luke 5:12); á¼Ï€ÎµÏωτάω (N+acc: Gen 24:23; 43:7; 2 Kgs 19:10 [A]; Jer
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