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by Stephen Carlson
January 26th, 2024, 5:22 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
Replies: 6
Views: 4900

Re: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)

Would be nice to have a huge annotated corpus for Ancient (classical and/or post-classical) Greek. So much can be studied.
by Stephen Carlson
January 7th, 2024, 9:35 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Why is βοῶντος in the genitive in John 1:23?
Replies: 3
Views: 1103

Re: Why is βοῶντος in the genitive in John 1:23?

How many indefinite substantivized participles are there in the NT? It feels pretty infrequent (triggering the OP's question).
by Stephen Carlson
December 13th, 2023, 7:08 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Feedback on criteria for posting books here
Replies: 23
Views: 68138

Re: Feedback on criteria for posting books here

Many of these books haven't been published yet, and I always forget about them. We need some follow up when they're out.
by Stephen Carlson
December 13th, 2023, 7:06 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Anagnostopoulou - The Place of Case in Grammar
Replies: 1
Views: 9244

Re: Anagnostopoulou - The Place of Case in Grammar

A word of caution is that this book operates within the generative linguistic tradition (think Chomsky), which a lot of people find unhelpful for anything exegetical.
by Stephen Carlson
November 5th, 2023, 12:57 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
Replies: 6
Views: 4900

Re: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)

I'm not going to pretend that I know or understand the motivations for one use over the other, Stephen. What I can say is that I think issues like this represent good example of how grammatical choices function as a continuum along the likes of what Carl Bache (1995, 127) describes, such that we ca...
by Stephen Carlson
October 20th, 2023, 9:04 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)
Replies: 6
Views: 4900

Article usage in heaven and on earth (Matt 6:10, 28:18)

Article usage in Greek is weird, esp. with objects of prepositions and monadic nouns. Here's a minimal pair: Matt 6:10 γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου, ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ ⸆ γῆς· Matt 28:18 ἐδόθη μοι πᾶσα ἐξουσία ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ °τῆς γῆς· As the sigla show, even the scribes weren't sure. Any grammar maven...
by Stephen Carlson
August 18th, 2023, 9:14 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Aorist stem formation
Replies: 9
Views: 6929

Re: Aorist stem formation

Jonathan Robie wrote: August 17th, 2023, 3:44 pm Sigmatic Aorists and Pseudo-Sigmatic Aorists
"Pseudo-sigmatic" is a new term and not particularly transparent as there is no sigma left in the form. "Liquid" aorist is the usual term, and as bad as "liquid" is, I see no reason to invent a term even more opaque.
by Stephen Carlson
August 1st, 2023, 12:25 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Punctuation in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
Replies: 13
Views: 5343

Re: Punctuation in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)

Wiktionary tells me that the άνω τελεία is used thus: 1. Separates groups of clauses in a sentence. 2. Separates two parts of a sentence where a κόμμα is thought to be inadequate. But Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς is not a clause, and the whitespace separates these three very parallel lines (which ...
by Stephen Carlson
May 23rd, 2023, 4:39 am
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: John 3:36
Replies: 4
Views: 2601

Re: John 3:36

The struggle was because πιστεύων εἰς τὸν υἱὸν has the object in the accusative and not dative like you said. But the second clause, ἀπειθῶν τῷ υἱῷ has it in the dative. Is this significant? Why is there an expression of one object in accusative and the other one in dative? Technically, in πιστεύων...
by Stephen Carlson
May 2nd, 2023, 1:07 am
Forum: Books
Topic: Denizot eat al - Building Modality with Syntax - Focus on Ancient Greek
Replies: 1
Views: 1428

Re: Denizot eat al - Building Modality with Syntax - Focus on Ancient Greek

Looks like a collection of essays, so the engagement with Ancient Greek will be all over the map (probably a good thing for these book collections).

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