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    A Linguistic and exegetical investigation of tote in the New Testament

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    2014-06
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    Ndombo, Guy Josia
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    Abstract
    The understanding of discourse markers, more than before, is nowadays considered as an important part of language studies. Discourse markers play important roles in the communication system as they coordinate the meaning of utterances. Understood from that perspective, the particle τ􀁇τε takes a special significance in the study of some NT texts. Nevertheless, this Greek adverb has not been subject to a comprehensive study in the whole NT and its understanding has been limited to facts found in very few researches. It is therefore an attempt of this research to offer a comprehensive categorization of τ􀁇τε in the NT. In the process of achieving the goal of a successful analysis of τ􀁇τε in the NT, a semantic study, comprising a diachronic and synchronic study, is offered in order to give a general understanding of this particle. From the synchronic study, general categories of τ􀁇τε and their functions are highlighted, setting the parameters for a subsequent pragmatic analysis of the various occurrences of τ􀁇τε in the NT. It globally appears that τ􀁇τε in the NT serves both as an adverb and as a conjunction. The adverbial usage exhibits temporal indexicality, anaphora, and (con)sequence. Conjunctive τ􀁇τε is both sentence initial and clause initial. Narrative τ􀁇τε is a peculiarity of some books and tends to be sentence initial.
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