Grammar and Exegesis

Abstract

TR IV does not focus on linguistic issues. Nonetheless, it presupposes a linguistic understanding of the way a sentence's elements are connected. Some specific topics related to this are discussed in this chapter. Proximity, fitness and expectation are the basic criteria used in Indian linguistics to detect the boundaries of a sentence. Proximity makes one look for subsidiaries close to the main prescription. Fitness makes it possible that the unprecedented duty about the responsibility is connected to content. Expectation was determined by the mutual requirement holding between the main prescription and its subsidiary prescriptions. These criteria are used by the hearer to understand that certain sentences constitute a unit of text to convey a unitary meaning. Proximity applies before expectation, until it is validated by expectation. To find a linguistic parallel, one might be tempted to look at the connection of semantic and syntactic elements within a larger textual passage.Keywords:exegesis; grammar; linguistics; semantic function; syntactic elements; TR hermeneutics; TR IV