Grammatical Terms in Greek
Posted: March 9th, 2013, 10:57 am
What terms did Greeks use to discuss their language? Today, we use English grammar metalanguage (which has a strong affinity to Latin grammar, which sometimes is not helpful). Using Greek terms makes sense (1) when the Latin term has no matching term or terms are mismatched - e.g. deponent, (2) to understand the meaning of the cases e.g. αἰτιατική = accusative, δωτική = dative > δίδωμι, (3) a person is learning the language through aural immersion and wants to stay in the target language, (4) you want to read what a Greek grammarian said about the Greek language, (5) κτλ.
Randall Buth in his books Living Koine lists some of these terms in his appendix on pages 175-178. William Annis has collected a number of those terms primarily from Eleanor Dickey’s Ancient Greek scholarship: a Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica and Grammatical Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period, Oxford University Press, 2007. You can find his collection of terms at http://scholiastae.org/docs/el/greek_gr ... _greek.pdf
[Note: This subject may have been addresses elsewhere on this list. But I wanted to have a separate thread.] Here are some other places it has been discussed:
Metalanguage, Schmetalanguage http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... 409&p=7273,
Metalanguage: pedagogical nuisance or necessity? http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... =15&t=1089,
τεχνὴ γραμματική http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... 088&p=5175,
The Epistemology of Linguistics http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... 817&p=3476,
Fad or Necessity--Developing Oral Competency in Greekhttp://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... 729&p=2938
Randall Buth in his books Living Koine lists some of these terms in his appendix on pages 175-178. William Annis has collected a number of those terms primarily from Eleanor Dickey’s Ancient Greek scholarship: a Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica and Grammatical Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period, Oxford University Press, 2007. You can find his collection of terms at http://scholiastae.org/docs/el/greek_gr ... _greek.pdf
[Note: This subject may have been addresses elsewhere on this list. But I wanted to have a separate thread.] Here are some other places it has been discussed:
Metalanguage, Schmetalanguage http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... 409&p=7273,
Metalanguage: pedagogical nuisance or necessity? http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... =15&t=1089,
τεχνὴ γραμματική http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... 088&p=5175,
The Epistemology of Linguistics http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... 817&p=3476,
Fad or Necessity--Developing Oral Competency in Greekhttp://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vie ... 729&p=2938