[B-Greek] Is modern Greek informative for Koine or Classical Greek?

Donald Vance donaldrvance at mac.com
Wed Oct 26 18:21:32 EDT 2005


There is an assumption here that modern Greek speakers would have some 
insight that non-speakers would not have. If modern Greek is as 
different from Koine Greek as modern Hebrew is from Classical 
(Biblical) Hebrew, then the insight would be minimal. (I will hear from 
Randall on this one.) Since I do not know how different modern Greek is 
from Classical and Koine, I would also like to hear what they might 
say.

Donald R. Vance, Ph.D.
Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature
Oral Roberts University
dvance at oru.edu
donaldrvance at mac.com

On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Eric Weiss wrote:

<snip>

> I am nearly done with the JETS article, but in light of Randall Buth's 
> comments, it is interesting
> that this apparent ongoing-since-1990 discussion of how to 
> grammaticalize and discuss the
> Greek tense system is all being done by, and argued and debated among, 
> American and
> English grammarians, with no Greek-speaking grammarians' (e.g., 
> Caragounis)
> comments/views being mentioned or debated. I don't know if this is 
> because there are no
> native-Greek speakers entering into the tense/aspect/aktionsart 
> debate, or if their absence is
> for other reasons - or maybe I just don't know of their names.
>




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