[B-Greek] Predicate Adjective Participles

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 27 16:43:43 EDT 2005


On Aug 27, 2005, at 9:31 AM, R Yochanan Bitan Buth wrote:

>  Descriptive
> linguistics' are metalanguages, that is they use language to talk
> about a language. They are certainly not a starting point for
> internalizing a language. The confusion on this point is endemic to
> the field.

Dr. Buth,

No doubt you would agree that the so called traditional grammar  
approach has its own metalanguage. No-one (outside of Jerusalem)  
studies NT greek without learning a metalanguage. Most of the  
discussion of this Wallace fellow I have read in the b-greek archives  
is fussing about his metalanguage. I will pick up the book this  
afternoon and come back with some glaring examples of the use and  
abuse of metalanguage among the traditionalists.

Thanks for posting.


Elizabeth Kline







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