[B-Greek] interlinear anxiety (was Top Ten Things that B-Greekers will be giving up this year for Lent
Michael Aubrey
mga318 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 15 00:09:13 EST 2010
Anxiety and hysteria? Maybe. Maybe not. I'm not sure. I have friends who eventually dropped out of their Greek classes because they tried to get through by using an interlinear for their work. I doubt there's anyone who would actually say, "I'm learning Greek by using an interlinear," but there are plenty of students who try to cheat the learning process by using one and only cheat themselves.
As for professional use of interlinears, I often make quite a habit of interlinearizing my own papers and work for the benefit of fellow linguists reading it and, indeed, highly specific morpheme-by-morpheme interlinearization is expected in most linguistics work in order for others to check the author's claims about what the language does. But such an analysis doesn't appear often in Biblical Greek work. I highly doubt that most students would be able to tell what various morphemes (particularly in the verb) actually mean. Morphologically, it's a highly complex system of extended exponence (<-- that term is google-able for those who don't know what it means). Probably the best discussion of the morphology of the Greek verb in terms of morphemes is in P. H. Matthew's Morphology 2nd Edition, which is a fantastic book in its own right.
Mike
http://evepheso.wordpress.com
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From: Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
To: B- Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 8:51:40 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] interlinear anxiety (was Top Ten Things that B-Greekers will be giving up this year for Lent
On Feb 14, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Stephen Baldwin wrote:
> Since I've been b-greeking, I was initially curious about the interlinear debate -- pros and cons and etc. latterly baffled at the high level of anxiety [almost verging on hysteria?] that the subject generates.
Stephen,
I am also baffled at the anxiety and hysteria.
I was told by someone who was there, that one of the top NT Greek linguists, a name familiar to all of you but not a member of this list, attended a seminar on NT linguistics with an interlinear under his arm. Interlinear text is quite often used in books published for bible translation professionals.
Elizabeth Kline
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