Attraction (grammar)

See also: Attraction

Of Grammar, the phenomenon of the attraction consists of the contamination of a Relative pronoun, which normally should take the case dictated by its function in the Proposition, by its Antécédent. Its case is then, in an erroneous way, that corresponding to the function of this antecedent.

In English, (theoretical example)

This is the boss off the man whom I puts yesterday. (correct)

This is the boss off the man whose I puts yesterday. (contamination by attraction )

In French, this phenomenon cannot take place because the relative pronoun keeps the same form whatever the case.
In Greek old, the attraction is a phenomenon more running, it is found particularly in the Seventy like in certain texts of the New Testament. It is a phenomenon used by the textual Critique and the Exégèse.

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