The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke

This work studies the word order of the Gospel of Luke and some of its prominent messages with consideration of systemic functional linguistic theories.

The first part of the work focuses on the relative positions of four constituents (subject, predicate, complement and circumstantial adjunct) of different types of Lukan clauses (independent, dependent, infinitival, participial and embedded clause). The result gives some unmarked (typical or common) word order patterns and some marked word order patterns of all Lukan clauses.

The second part traces the foregrounded messages of the Gospel based on their related marked word order patterns incorporated with functional linguistic phenomena. The result highlights the messages of Jesus' disciples and his parents' failure in understanding him, Pilate's crime of handing over Jesus and Jesus' predictions of his future sufferings and Peter's future failure.

• Table of contents
• Part I - Introduction
• Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Recent Studies of the Topic of Word Order
  • Chapter 2 Studying Word Order of Luke: A Methodological Consideration
• Part II - Unmarked Word Orders of the Gospel of Luke
  • Chapter 3 Relative Positions of Main Constituents in Lukan Clauses
  • Chapter 4 The Positions of Circumstantial Adjuncts in Lukan Clauses
• Part III - Marked Word Orders of the Gospel of Luke and Foregrounded Messages
  • Chapter 5 Indirect Speeches in Luke and the Disciples' Understanding of Jesus
  • Chapter 6 Handing Over Jesus: A Consideration of Pilate's Action Through the Clause Structures in Luke 23.1-25
    • Appendix 6A: Incidents of REJ(C)P and RSC(J)P in Acts
    • Appendix 6B: The CP Order in Luke 23.16, 22 and 22.54
  • Chapter 7 Temporal Clause Complexes and Foregrounded Messages in Luke Two
  • Chapter 8 Given-New Information Units in Luke 22.24-38 and Its Prominent Messages
• Conclusion
• Appendix - Distributions of the Word Orders in Lukan Clauses
• Bibliography