[B-Greek] "Aporetic genitive" and "Nominativus ad Nauseam"
Elizabeth Kline
kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 17 13:03:47 EST 2007
On Feb 17, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> Perhaps Wallace has somehow managed [to] escape
> nearly half a century of Chomsky's influence on the notion of SYNTAX
> among language scholars.
... managed to escape
I am not doing well at SYNTAX this morning :-).
By way of contrast Culy/Parsons' book on Acts shows clear evidence of
not only footprints from the transformational/generative tradition
but also from the derivatives of the Prague school, pragmatics,
functionalism and what not. I suspect that an intermediate grammar
written by Culy/Parsons would be worth reading, though it might not
be as accessible as Wallace or Mounce. The widespread popularity of
Wallace and Mounce is probably a result of very aggressive marketing
and to some extent a positive student/instructor response. Culy/
Parsons occasionally introduce terminology and concepts into their
treatment of Acts that would, no doubt, leave a second year seminary
student behind. Seminary students don't like to be "left behind" so
Mounce is popular, and to some extent this probably applies to
Wallace who, although he can be very confusing, uses an English
language approach to grammar which is wrongheaded (see Carl's
comments in the past about this) but more accessible to the English
speaking student.
Elizabeth Kline
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