[B-Greek] Mark 3:14
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kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Wed Apr 12 22:57:03 EDT 2006
@ Elizabeth:
I think GGBB is a good grammar, if you look at it Wallace gives several examples of iterative presents and only uses Mk 3:14 as a cf. So I can see how one can get some of his illustrations mixed up. To be honest though the only grip I have with GGBB is that it is a bit theological in it's nature. Which is ok, but I think one should realize that when they get it. But I've been pleased with it overall.
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Kelton Graham
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From: Elizabeth Kline <kline-dekooning at earthlink.net>
>
> On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Norman Wood wrote:
>
> > Wallace in Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics gives a description of
> > the iterative present.
> > "The present tense may be used to describe an event that repeatedly
> > happens"(pg 520). He suggests Mark 3:14 as an example and the only
> > present that I can see is the present subjunctive INA WSIN MET AUTOU.
> > Does this mean that the present subjunctive means that they would
> > be with him not continuously, but again and again ie they would be
> > with him, then not, then back with him over and over again?Or have
> > I got the wrong bit?
> > Any thoughts would be welcome.
> > Thanks
> > Norman Wood
> > Scotland
>
> Norman,
>
> MARK 3:14 KAI EPOIHSEN DWDEKA [hOUS KAI APOSTOLOUS WNOMASEN]
> hINA WSIN MET' AUTOU KAI hINA APOSTELLHi AUTOUS KHRUSSEIN
>
> I suspect Wallace is looking at APOSTELLHi. Having followed many
> discussions in this forum that start out with some misleading
> statement from the grammar you are using, I wonder why anyone would
> use it as at textbook. However I find nothing wrong with the
> quotation "The present tense may be used to describe an event that
> repeatedly happens" as long as it is made very very clear that
> iterativity is not a semantic feature of the present tense. People
> who set out to write reference grammars should have a solid
> background in linguistics. I suspect that is why GGBB causes some
> much confusion.
>
>
> Elizabeth Kline
>
>
>
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