[B-Greek] phonological flow & syntactical structure

Eric Biggs ericb at gracechurchreno.org
Wed Apr 27 17:01:46 EDT 2005


James Tauber,

'Phonological flow' is my phrase.  In considering what Noam Chomsky has written on syntacitcal structure and the way he uses phonology in this process, I believe I came up with it.  I do not have the "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax" in front of me, (it's at home), so I can not quote right now, but I will on my next post.

My thought's on exegesis come from my understanding from  Chomsky's syntactical structure, which seems to be linked to phonology.  If phonology has any way of governing the syntax then knowlege of the way phomemes flow, would be useful in exegesis.  Only if it has bearing on the syntax.  Therefore I considered a more acurate pronunciation.

My understanding of generative grammar, in a nut shell, is that grammar itself is controled by language and thus bringing about grammatical constructions that do not "fit the rules" but become accepted due to use.  This lends to seeing language as an "entity" and not a "phenomenon".  I took this thinking into Chomsky's syntactical structure.

I have been mislead on the orgin of Greek being Sanskrit, (I do not know Sanskrit) but in an attempt to realize a better pronunciation I thought it right to go to the source as opposed to bringing a modern understanding into the ancient understanding. 

Eric Biggs
zealous student
Reno, NV


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