[B-Greek] Master Case Ending Chart (MCEC) or Old Fashion Way??
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 08:55:12 EDT 2009
>Dr. Buth:
>
> Let me rephrase my question for you, Dr. Buth. When you show your first year students the concept of case endings, what do you actually show them? In other words, in addition to speaking and hearing, do you ever SHOW your students what the case endings look like? If so, does it more so approximate the Mounce method (a letter(s) in columns and rows) or what I see in older grammars (words in columns and rows)?
>
>Mitch Larramore
Your first question is quite different from your second one.
"to show the concept" we actually
use the language while doing things.
If I write TW KALAMW or if I ask TINI XRWMAI
'what am I using?' They learn concepts and words, and may see them
written, before
they hear about DOTIKH and before they see a table(s).
After 1000 pictures in Part One of Living Koine Greek there is a brief
description of the case forms with examples,
and also a table of the Greek article, which is close to being the
'simple chart'.
So in effect they get both, but after being exposed to many examples of usage
in context. these items are then repeated in Part Two and occasionally
summarized
with the third declinsion included. In fact, in the noun tables at the
end of Part 2b
we have listed the abstract endings along with sample words.
Here is that sample table from the TRITH KLISIS (with table lines removed)
3κ. τέλος ἤ
ορ –ς [-ν, -ρ]
γε –ος
δο –ι
αι –α –ν
κλ – [short vowel]
π
ορ –ες –α
γε –ων
δο –σι
αι –ας –α
3K. TELOS H
OR -S [-N, -R]
GE -OS
DO -I
AI -A -N
KL - [short vowel]
P
OR -ES -A
GE -WN
DO -SI
AI -AS -A
What we don't do is show how Homeros. proto-Greek and the different KLISEIS
are related. Afterall, that's why they invented footnotes in Smyth.
Maybe if and
when we do a 'History of the Greek Language' taught in ancient Greek.
We are planning such a module in Hebrew for next summer:
"Late Biblical Hebrew, the Return to Zion"
www.biblicalulpan.org (scroll down past the Greek modules for 2010)
We are excited about these advanced BH modules
because it opens up a conceptually new framework
where the teachers will not be limited to 'biblical Hebrew only' but
will be allowed
anything that was potentially available in the Second Temple. That means that
words like tsorex 'need' 2Chr2:15 will justify the post-biblical ani
tsarix 'I need' for
the teachers and students (attested in Qumran DSS and Mishnaic Hebrew). It
will be interesting to see how this works out and interfaces with NorthAmerican
pedagogy in seminaries. The issue of restricted vocabulary in biblical Hebrew
is a major theoretical constraint for Hebrew pedagogy. And we should add
that Greek is not hampered by such restrictions, I suspect that we have 30,000
to 40,000 Greek words attested for the first century.
ERRWSO
Randall
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