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PRONOMEN ABUNDANS AND PRONOMEN CONIUNCTUM 103
pronomen abundans. The following example comes from the same source 378.
F 20-2 và èfJyá}"nç ra vee6' onee btfJaJ..J..oflÉvOV rov vt5aroç, èàv fJáJ..nç elç
avra ra vt5we • Eeflijv C wvra, ovrwç ev{}vç àafJearwveral.
The pronoun does not refer to an antecedent; it is just a connective 379.
Byz. Alex. 4258-60
Aomav àvaxw(!~aavuç náJ..w èu rwv èueïae
àv~xfh]flev elç lreeov rónoV' oç na(!avrtua
èui),evaa 7r;a(!eflfJoJ..~v èv rovup yeyovÉval 380 •
5.4. Causes of the high frequency of the relat. connection
The table in 5.2 has made it clear that in the Koine as well as in the
byzantine period relat. connection occurs very of ten. Some authors are
extremely fond of it, it seems. It has been said sometimes that this was
caused by Latin influence 381, but Werner has rightly rejected this theory 382.
In the following we shall discuss two phenomena which may have contributed
to the tendency to use the relat. connection.
5.4.l. The loss of particles
It has of ten been noted that the use of particles diminishes rapidly
in the Koine and in byzantine Greek. In the following two paragraphs
a survey will be given of the use of connective particles (not of the emphatic
ones, as they are not of interest for our subject), based upon some publications
on this matter.
5.4.l.l. In the Koine. In a study on paratactic ual mAttic Greek
Trenkner speaks of the fact that in the Koine paratactic ual has replaced
many connective particles, and adds 383: "On attribue cette portée du
ual au déclin progressif, aux temps helléniques, des autres particules,
Ie ual recueillant leur functions". In his study on the language of Diodorus
Palm observes the same 384. He discusses, however, the connective and
emphatic particles together, and thus it does not become clear, whether in
speaking of the paucity of particles, he means the connective particles
or not. And there are many others who speak of the scarcity of particles
in Post-Classical Greek in general terms 385.
In one of the most recent studies on this subject Blomquist gives us
some interesting information. He composed, for instance, a tabIe, which
shows that the particle ual occurs more of ten in Thucydides and Xenophon
378 Tabachovitz, Étudea, p. 15.
379 Other instances of this fossilized Snel} are found in G26 and 014.
380 For more examples see Christensen, pp. 387-8 and Tabachovitz, Étudea, p. 15.
381 See, for instance, Schwyzer-Debrunner, p. 644,13.
382 Werner, p. 275. Cf. also Tabachovitz, Pali., p . 99.
383 Trenker, p. 30.
384 Palm, pp. 37-8 and 116-7.
385 See Blass-Debrunner, § 107, Radermacher, Gramm., p. 37, Mayser II 3,
p. 115 and Schwyzer-Debrunner, p. 556.