[B-Greek] Re: 1 Cor. 14:8 - word order, BDF & Turner

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Tue May 31 16:04:30 EDT 2005


RB:
>> I cited Dik because

> she worked on Herodotus, an ancient author that Rife might have
called

> "Subject-Object-Verb" yet she analyzed as "Verb-Subject-Object". It

> all boils down to identifying the pragmatic movements being

> involved.**

 

IL:

>When two scholars reach opposite conclusions about word order based
on the

same data, I am inclined to think that none of them got it quite
right.>

 

Possibly, but -

Rife and Dik were not using the same data, even if they would look at
the same text. Rife was restricting the data, then counting. Dik was
assuming pragmatic movement then trying to evaulate. They were two
different methodologies on different sets of data. Apples and oranges.
Same thing happens in Hebrew. There are those who restrict data,
count, and argue that Hebrew is SVO. I'd have to say that they are
wrong. 

 

Randall Buth, PhD

Director, Biblical Language Center

www.biblicalulpan.org

and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel

Hebrew University, Rothberg International School

ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il

 




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