[B-Greek] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data: An Argument for a Large Corpus Size (i.e., Reading WIdely)
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Thu Mar 25 18:35:46 EDT 2010
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for a Large Corpus Size (i.e., Reading WIdely)
> NT linguists are also prone to challenging the rules found in traditional
> grammars. One example is the genitive absolute which came up in a
> different thread today. R.J. Young (Inter.Grammar p159) suggests an
> alternative to the traditional approach to the genitive absolute. He
> points out that a very significant percentage of these constructions can
> be shown to be syntactically linked to the main clause. In other words the
> traditional "rules" for the genitive absolute don't do a good job of
> explaining the use of this construction in greek.
You mean in NT Greek or in the wider corpus? But I don't know what the the
fuss would be about. Anybody who's actually read the NT in Greek has seen
examples of GA's that don't exactly follow the descriptive rule, and one can
see such "violations" even in Classical Greek.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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