[B-Greek] interlinear anxiety (was Top Ten Things...

Michael Aubrey mga318 at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 15 00:25:05 EST 2010


A more accurate label would be professional linguists. When Rijkoff published his magisterial volume of the structure of the Noun Phrase (The Noun Phrase, Oxford, 2002) across a collection of 50+ carefully selected languages relying on highly detailed morpheme-by-morpheme glossing was a necessary pre-requisite. Quality typological work cannot be done without reliable and detailed interlinearization and grammatical description -- very much in the same way quality text-critical work cannot be done without reliable and detailed transcriptions, photographs, etc.




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From: Barry <nebarry at verizon.net>
To: B- Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sun, February 14, 2010 9:10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] interlinear anxiety (was Top Ten Things that B-Greekers will be giving up this year for Lent

> 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. <<

Really?  What is the rationale?  Makes me glad that I'm not a "bible 
translation professional."

N.E. Barry Hofstetter

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    -- Augustine, Confessions 1:1

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