[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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