Beginning Grammar
c stirling bartholomew
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Sun Jul 14 13:59:01 EDT 2002
Noticed a little dittography in my previous post on this.
on 7/14/02 9:34 AM, c stirling bartholomew wrote:
> Someone needs to do what NT Greek what Bryan Rocine did with his biblical
> Hebrew primer, break out of the linguistic dark ages.
Had a brief exchange with one of the Roehampton alumnae a year ago about how
to teach the Greek Case system to an intermediate NT Greek class. I spent
some free time over several weeks working up a sample of what I would call a
minimalist (not Chomsky) approach to the case system, focusing on syntax
functions to the exclusion of semantic functions.
The Roehampton grad, after looking at my prototype, commented that I had not
reproduced a taxonomy of semantic functions for each case which is the
conventional way of doing things (e.g. Wallace, GGBB).
So there you have it. Even the former students of SE Porter are still
mixing up case functions with lexical semantics.
Dressing up Machen in new clothes for generation-Y doesn't solve the
fundamental problem.
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
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