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Sentence Conjunctions in the Gospel of Matthew: καί, δέ, τότε, γάρ, σὖν and Asyndeton in Narrative Discourse is unavailable, but you can change that!

Black applies current linguistic research on discourse markers to the sentence conjunctions found in Matthew’s Gospel. This treatment combines linguistic insights with a detailed examination of Matthew’s use of conjunctions in narrative passages. She breaks new ground in linguistic theory by modeling the interplay between features such as sentence conjunction, word order, and verb tense in the...

Segal et al. include the introduction of a new character or a shift in time or place as examples of narrative discontinuity.82 Murray also identifies ‘reversions to an earlier setting or scene (such as a flashback), an abrupt topic change, a surprising turn of events, a character moving away from what he/she is currently doing, or a violation of an expectation created in the previous text’ as among numerous examples of discontinuity in narrative.83 Sentence conjunctions are one means of informing
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