2016年11月4日金曜日

Apo Koinou

A follow-up to "There is no one compares with you"

The sentence construction is sometimes called "Apo Koinou" (from Greek)

The OED explains:
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Applied to a construction consisting of two clauses which have a word or phrase in common (see quots.)
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The OED cites the passages in which "Apo Koinou" was used, and these are actually the ones by modern linguists.
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1892   L. Kellner Hist. Outl. Eng. Syntax 62   The whole construction may be apprehended as a sentence with one subject and two predicates. This is the so-called construction ἀπὸ κοινοῦ.
1927   O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. III. vii. 133   Our constructions are often explained on the so-called apokoinou principle, according to which something is expressed only once instead of twice, but in such a way that the hearer connects it both with what precedes and with what follows.
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