Technology and Grammar

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 16 10:53:48 EDT 2002



Carl:

You wrote:

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>If there is going to be a discussion of this topic, I hope that we can keep
>it reasonably clearly focused upon linguistic approaches to and analysis of
>Biblical Greek grammar rather than upon broader issues of epistemology and
>linguistic theory.
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Here is an example that I hope illustrates what is behind
my question.

1. Take a sample of Greek literature that has been parsed.

2. Convert this over to an English counterpart, with translation
and parsing (in English). This is where the program looks.

3. Run a program that compares all participles with their related
main verbs, to the extent that this can be done... in other words,
there will be some anomalies.

4. Count the number of Aorist participles that are positioned
before and after the main verb.

5. Look at the English to determine if a past tense English verbal
was used to translate those that appeared BEFORE the main verb.

6. Do the same for those that appeared AFTER the main verb.

To a lesser extent, this is what Rod Decker did, but with computers,
we can obtain trends from volumes of Greek literature. I realize
that we are relying to some extent on how the English was translated;
I realize we need to segment the literature into genre, etc.

Is this doable?

Mark Wilson





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