two models?

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Thu Oct 24 14:45:01 EDT 2002


At 09:57 PM 10/23/2002 -0700, c stirling bartholomew wrote:

>The idea that one can be an expert on NT Greek and not be well read in
>linguistics is rather an novel concept.

Funny, I know many people who speak English quite fluently, even though 
they have read nothing about linguistics. And I know many people who speak 
a foreign language quite fluently without knowledge of discourse analysis. 
What makes Greek different?

I don't think that discourse analysis is the tool you need if you want to 
know if a verb is aorist or present, first person or third person, plural 
or singular. Anybody who can't read a text and determine these things is 
going to have a hard time doing discourse analysis. Please don't fault 
Mounce or Machen for teaching people the language so they can do more 
sophisticated things like discourse analysis!

Jonathan





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