[B-Greek] Linguistics and the Greek Verb

Hugh Donohoe Jr. justusjcmylord at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 9 02:19:43 EST 2008


I was doing a critical re-read of Caragounis' "The
Development of Greek and the New Testament". In his
refutation of Porter (and to a lesser degree Fanning
and McKay) on verbal aspect, it was quite obvious that
he possessed the empirical high ground. Porter
utilized much of contemporary linguistic literature in
creating his untenable model of the Greek verb. This
prompted the following statement by Caragounis on pg.
335. "Not only through other studies, but also
throughout his [Porter's]own book it becomes evident
that the linguistic teachings abroad today are
multifarious, and because the discipline, or shall I
say disciplines- since there are many different
systems  or approaches- are still in a state of
fermentation, development, and constant modification.
Perhaps linguistics- which admittedly has given some
interesting insights to the study of language- is not
yet ready to supply the definitive model for
explaining the Greek verb, one that can supercede the
classical model." I've noticed there are several
persons on this forum with at least one foot in
linguistics. I wished the statement could be weighed
by those who possess the scales to do so.

Hugh J. Donohoe Jr.


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