[B-Greek] TI in Gal 2.6

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Tue Nov 30 11:42:51 EST 2004


On Nov 29, 2004, at 12:48 AM, Eric Sowell wrote:

> Hmmm...that does seem to be the correct. I figured this might be a 
> case of the "I forgot that construction existed" syndrome :). I do 
> that all the time... I'm not sure where you looked, Steven, but I just 
> checked the Bibleworks morphology and it is also an accusative there. 
> Thanks for the thoughts, guys. I like to learn things!

I am using both the GNT and GNT-T texts offered by Accordance. The 
Wheeler GNT text was discontinued by Accordance when their agreement 
with Gramcord terminated, and the GNT-T text by Mounce and Koivisto was 
adopted. I happen to have both, and since the tagging of the Wheeler 
text is more detailed and at this stage probably more accurate, I often 
use it.

I think this present thread illustrates that we must use tagged texts 
critically and with caution. There are bound to be many mistakes. The 
distinction between the constructions involving intransitive and 
transitive DOKEW illustrates this. For example, note the ironic 
mistakes in both GNT and GNT-T in Gal 2.6 and Gal 6.3. In 2.6 we have 
an **intransitive** use of DOKEW followed by a complementary EINAI and 
its predicate TI, where TI should be tagged nominative but is tagged 
accusative by both GNT and GNT-T. But in Gal 6.3 we have a 
**transitive** use of DOKEW followed by the object clause EINAI TI 
MHDEN WN, where both TI and MHDEN should be tagged accusative but both 
are tagged nominative in both GNT and GNT-T! When we look at other 
examples where the predicate word is unambiguous, it becomes apparent 
that this is backwards.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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