Thanks for the report. Very interesting.
There is one thing that really struck me. 65 classroom instruction hours is wonderful amount of time. That's how much total classroom time is allocated to the first year of Greek at many seminaries.
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- July 29th, 2012, 10:31 pm
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Randall Buth's Fluency Workshop
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11520
- July 29th, 2012, 7:19 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Tense and Aspect in Modern Greek
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3497
Tense and Aspect in Modern Greek
I found a 2009 Master's thesis that provides a fairly clear, straightforward, and theoretically well-informed discussion of tense and aspect in Modern Greek: Lelouda Samara, The Aspect of Time: The Perfective and Imperfective Properties of Tense in Modern Greek (M.A. diss., University of Essex, 2009...
- July 29th, 2012, 6:57 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Constructio ad Sensum in the prologue of John
- Replies: 41
- Views: 31903
Re: Constructio ad Sensum in the prologue of John
I'm going to have to repeat my earlier moderator's note, as the discussion is veering too close to the line:
Please keep your discussion on the grammar of the clause. This forum is not for theological speculation or argumentation.
Please keep your discussion on the grammar of the clause. This forum is not for theological speculation or argumentation.
- July 29th, 2012, 10:21 am
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, Ch. 2.1-2
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8141
Re: Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, Ch. 2.1-2
In this case, the diacritical marks are significant. ἰδίᾳ is feminine dative singular. ἴδια is neuter nom./acc. plural.David Lim wrote:"ιδια" (accusative plural neuter)
- July 29th, 2012, 10:14 am
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, Ch. 2.1-2
- Replies: 7
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Re: Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, Ch. 2.1-2
ὁ δὲ Λυκοῦργος, ἀντὶ μὲν τοῦ ἰδίᾳ ἕκαστον παιδαγωγοὺς δούλους ἐφιστάναι, ἄνδρα ἐπέστησε κρατεῖν αὐτῶν ἐξ ὧνπερ αἱ μέγισται ἀρχαὶ καθίστανται, ὃς δὴ καὶ παιδονόμος καλεῖται What or who is ἰδίᾳ referring to? I think this dative refers to something that each person (ἕκαστος) has, possibly a household ...
- July 27th, 2012, 11:05 am
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Default word order in Greek
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12399
Re: Default word order in Greek
I think that's right, but Steve could comment if he's not too busy. My view is that Greek is an non-configurational language, so its word order relating to the verb and its arguments is not syntactic but pragmatic. So, it makes more more sense for me to talk about pragmatically unmarked word orders,...
- July 27th, 2012, 10:38 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Daniel C. Owens
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5320
Re: Daniel C. Owens
Welcome to B-Greek.
Congrulations on your Ph.D.! What was your dissertation on?
Congrulations on your Ph.D.! What was your dissertation on?
- July 27th, 2012, 8:39 am
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Default word order in Greek
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12399
Re: Default word order in Greek
Don't know about a "consensus," but that's what Stephen Levinsohn basically claims in his book, Discourse Features of New Testament Greek.
- July 25th, 2012, 7:25 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Force of the imperfect in 1 Cor 3:6 ηὔξανεν
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1382
Re: Force of the imperfect in 1 Cor 3:6 ηὔξανεν
Thanks for that. It is pretty helpful. I'll just note that Robertson has a somewhat different view: Where the aorist and the imperfect occur side by side, it is to be assumed that the change is made on purpose and the difference in idea to be sought. In juxtaposition the aorist lifts the curtain and...
- July 24th, 2012, 6:50 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Force of the imperfect in 1 Cor 3:6 ηὔξανεν
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1382
Force of the imperfect in 1 Cor 3:6 ηὔξανεν
What is the force of the imperfect in 1 Cor 3:6? ἐγὼ ἐφύτευσα, Ἀπολλῶς ἐπότισεν, ἀλλὰ ὁ θεὸς ηὔξανεν · Here we have two aorists, ἐγὼ ἐφύτευσα ("I planted"), Ἀπολλῶς ἐπότισεν ("Apollos watered"), followed by an imperfect ὁ θεὸς ηὔξανεν. Translations usually render the final imperf...