[B-Greek] KAI

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Mon Jan 26 10:15:09 EST 2004


Dear Oscar,

Being educated by Professor G.J. de Vries I know that KAI is a very
difficult word. The determination of the use of it is usually a matter of
debate between scholars who are acquainted with the use of the Greek
particles.
So your sentence "I understand that context finally determines these things"
is very appropriate, if you take "determines" not too literally.
For classical Greek there is of course J.D. Denniston; The Greek Particles,
Oxford 1959. There exists a book about particles in the NT by Sofie
Trenkner, but I do not possess it and I cannot find the exact title.
Then you can find a short summary in Blass-Debrunner-Rehkopf, Grammatik des
neutestamentlichen Griechisch, Göttingen 1990, par. 442 ff.

Arie

Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Oscar P Villa" <oscar_villa at edsamail.com.ph>
Aan: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Verzonden: maandag 26 januari 2004 14:26
Onderwerp: [B-Greek] KAI


> Dear Friends,
>
> I am curious as to how one clearly determines the function of KAI in a
given context. I have seen it used as
> - a conjunction (and),
> - an indicator  of what could be the start of a new series of statements,
> - modifying a noun or verb, ascensively/adverbially (even, also?)
> I have encountered texts which seem to point to clear cases of each, yet
have sometimes hit the wall on others.
> I understand that context finally determines these things, but has someone
thought out or written something which summarizes the data?
>
> Oscar Villa
>
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