Chapter four presents the first stage of the real challenge to the traditional way of handling Greek syntax. I argue that word-level grammatical categories, while essential to an adequate description of Greek syntax, are unable to account for certain syntactic phenomena. Pronouns, for example, may replace units larger than the individual noun. Exactly what a pronoun may replace is strictly definable in terms of the phrase-level category, Noun Phrase. A set of phrase-level categories of this type are proposed and possible objections to such an analysis are examine.

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