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- January 26th, 2024, 5:22 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
- Replies: 6
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Re: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
Would be nice to have a huge annotated corpus for Ancient (classical and/or post-classical) Greek. So much can be studied.
- January 7th, 2024, 9:35 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Why is βοῶντος in the genitive in John 1:23?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8702
Re: Why is βοῶντος in the genitive in John 1:23?
How many indefinite substantivized participles are there in the NT? It feels pretty infrequent (triggering the OP's question).
- December 13th, 2023, 7:08 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Feedback on criteria for posting books here
- Replies: 23
- Views: 99703
Re: Feedback on criteria for posting books here
Many of these books haven't been published yet, and I always forget about them. We need some follow up when they're out.
- December 13th, 2023, 7:06 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Anagnostopoulou - The Place of Case in Grammar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16512
Re: Anagnostopoulou - The Place of Case in Grammar
A word of caution is that this book operates within the generative linguistic tradition (think Chomsky), which a lot of people find unhelpful for anything exegetical.
- November 5th, 2023, 12:57 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16677
Re: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
I'm not going to pretend that I know or understand the motivations for one use over the other, Stephen. What I can say is that I think issues like this represent good example of how grammatical choices function as a continuum along the likes of what Carl Bache (1995, 127) describes, such that we ca...
- October 20th, 2023, 9:04 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16677
Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
Article usage in Greek is weird, esp. with objects of prepositions and monadic nouns. Here's a minimal pair: Matt 6:10 γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου, ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ ⸆ γῆς· Matt 28:18 ἐδόθη μοι πᾶσα ἐξουσία ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ °τῆς γῆς· As the sigla show, even the scribes weren't sure. Any grammar maven...
- August 18th, 2023, 9:14 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Aorist stem formation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17947
Re: Aorist stem formation
"Pseudo-sigmatic" is a new term and not particularly transparent as there is no sigma left in the form. "Liquid" aorist is the usual term, and as bad as "liquid" is, I see no reason to invent a term even more opaque.
- August 1st, 2023, 12:25 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Punctuation in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21012
Re: Punctuation in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
Wiktionary tells me that the άνω τελεία is used thus: 1. Separates groups of clauses in a sentence. 2. Separates two parts of a sentence where a κόμμα is thought to be inadequate. But Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς is not a clause, and the whitespace separates these three very parallel lines (which ...
- May 23rd, 2023, 4:39 am
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: John 3:36
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13152
Re: John 3:36
The struggle was because πιστεύων εἰς τὸν υἱὸν has the object in the accusative and not dative like you said. But the second clause, ἀπειθῶν τῷ υἱῷ has it in the dative. Is this significant? Why is there an expression of one object in accusative and the other one in dative? Technically, in πιστεύων...
- May 2nd, 2023, 1:07 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Denizot eat al - Building Modality with Syntax - Focus on Ancient Greek
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3721
Re: Denizot eat al - Building Modality with Syntax - Focus on Ancient Greek
Looks like a collection of essays, so the engagement with Ancient Greek will be all over the map (probably a good thing for these book collections).