Word order and information structure in New Testament Greek

This dissertation examines word \norder variation in the Koine Greek of the New Testament Greek in a \nvariety of domains: declarative clauses, questions and relative clauses.\n In particular, I examine the way in which word order corresponds to \ninformation structure. \n\n\n\nIt is argued that although New Testament Greek shows a variety of \npossible permutations of the sentence elements subject (S), verb (V) and\n object (O), in declarative clauses, questions and relative clauses, the\n word order is not free. Rather, it is partly governed by phrase \nstructure and partly by information structural considerations such as \nTopic and Focus. This is manifested in all of the domains investigated. I\n argue that the basic word order is best described as VSO with an SVO \nalternative basic word order. Marked clauses, such as SOV, OVS, OSV and \nalso some SVO clauses involve topicalization or focus movement of the \narguments. \n\n\n\nThis thesis is of interest to syntacticians who are interested in word \norder and the syntax-pragmatics interface as well as to historical \nlinguistics and classics scholars.