Egalitarian responses to Kostenberger's syntactic argument

Egalitarians have pushed back on Kostenberger in several ways: (1) Philip Payne argues that the two infinitives could express a single concept ('to teach in an authoritative way') rather than two separate activities, which would mean Paul only prohibits authoritative teaching, not all teaching and all authority separately; (2) Westfall argues the pattern is not as rigid as Kostenberger claims. Mike rebuts: (1) Kostenberger's pattern has been tested by multiple scholars and holds up across the data; (2) Even if Payne's single-concept reading were correct, it would still mean women cannot do the combined activity of 'authoritative teaching' — which is exactly what elders do; (3) The grammatical structure with two distinct infinitives connected by oude more naturally reads as two separate (related) activities, both of which are prohibited.