[B-Greek] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data: An Argument for a Large Corpus Size (i.e., Reading WIdely)
Dr. Don Wilkins
drdwilkins at verizon.net
Thu Mar 25 18:04:00 EDT 2010
Well said, Elizabeth; that's exactly why I suggested that some would
think the article supports the linguistics approach. But I'm sure
you'll agree that advocating and doing the actual reading are two
different things. My experience with NT linguists is that they are
not personally well-read in Greek at the level were talking about
(sometimes not even at the NT level). I don't blame them, because the
issue is mainly a matter of time, and their obligation to cover many
languages seems to eliminate the opportunity to read a large corpus
of any one language. But I'll offer you a similar challenge: show me
one contemporary NT linguist who has read at a comparable level to a
Carl Conrad or some of the other Classics/Greek Ph.D.'s on the list.
Better yet, show me a few of them. My hat is off to anyone who has a
2-year competency or better in a couple of dozen languages, plus the
completion of a Ph.D.-level reading list in ancient Greek. And if you
are one of them, you have my utmost admiration.
While I'm thinking of Carl, my apologies to him if I am steering this
thread off-topic. In that case, I immediately repent.
Don Wilkins
On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
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> On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Dr. Don Wilkins wrote:
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>> Very interesting. I wonder what (if anything) this says for the
>> conflicts between the linguistics approach to Greek and the old
>> school. Some might say that this supports the former, but it could be
>> argued that it actually supports the latter, i.e. those students of
>> Greek who base their conclusions on a wider personal familiarity with
>> the extant literature.
>
> Show me one contemporary NT linguists who does not advocate using a
> Corpus beyond NT and LXX.
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> Elizabeth Kline
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