[B-Greek] Discourse Analysis - Luke 6:20, 24

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 14 11:35:45 EST 2006


On Feb 13, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Wayne Leman wrote:

> So true, Elizabeth. In fact, few, within SIL, at least, who practice
> discourse analysis (and there are many different approaches) are  
> very keen
> on transformational grammar, at least that which came from early  
> Chomskyian
> writings (1957, 1964).
>
> Gary O'Neal might be referring to SSAs (Semantic Structure Analyeses)
> produced by SIL members. SSAs attempt to display all the explicit and
> implicit propositions within a biblical text as well as the logical
> relationships among them. There is no relationship to Transformational
> Grammar.

Wayne,

I have been thinking this over for a while and I wonder if your  
statement "There is no relationship to Transformational Grammar"  
might be a wee bit strong. If you mean by this that the methods and  
concepts employed in Semantic Structure Analysis have come a long way  
from "early Chomskyian writings (1957, 1964)" then I would see no  
problem with that. However, any Bible translation procedure which  
takes the "surface structure" and reduces it to a set of propositions  
looks suspiciously like E.A. Nida's adaptation of Transformational  
Grammar. So there would appear to be at least some sort of genetic  
relationship between Transformational Grammar and Semantic Structure  
Analysis.



Elizabeth Kline







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