Comma (rhetoric)
In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a comma (κόμμα komma, plural κόμματα kommata) is a short clause, something less than a colon.
In the system of Aristophanes of Byzantium, commata were separated by middle interpuncts.
In antiquity, a comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables.
See also
- Comma Johanneum - disputed text in 1 John 5:7-8
References
- http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/C/comma.htm Part of a glossary of classical rhetorical terms.
Bibliography
- Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament. Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 45–46.
- Toivo Viljamaa, "Colon and comma: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the sentence structure", pp. 163-178 in P. Swiggers, A. Wouters (eds.), Syntax in Antiquity , 2003
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