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by David M. Miller
November 21st, 2013, 8:48 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Linguists: What have you done for me lately?
Replies: 30
Views: 12630

Re: Linguists: What have you done for me lately?

Yes, of course, I meant Con(stantine) Campbell. It must have been Carl Conrad's force field that led to the mistake.
George F Somsel wrote:David Miller wrote:
Conrad Campbell says it can't:
Do you perhaps mean Constantine Campbell?
by David M. Miller
November 21st, 2013, 12:12 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Linguists: What have you done for me lately?
Replies: 30
Views: 12630

Re: Linguists: What have you done for me lately?

Would you consider pragmatics as a separate topic or include it under semantics? Perhaps you could define pragmatics and then give some suggestions. Precisely my question--or at least I hope it fits here: Can semantic features of a verb be cancelled by pragmatic (or contextual) factors? The opposin...
by David M. Miller
August 21st, 2013, 11:22 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Tom McGlothlin
Replies: 4
Views: 1952

Re: Tom McGlothlin

Welcome, Tom. Care to say more about your Greek Sunday school class?
by David M. Miller
July 28th, 2013, 12:06 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Intermediate Level Greek Language Learning
Replies: 10
Views: 7062

Re: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?

I guess the need for an intermediate level textbook on Greek syntax depends on the institution where Greek is taught. At Duke Divinity, there is only one year of Greek, using a primer, and after that there are optional reading groups. For exegesis, divinity students serious about the Greek are expe...
by David M. Miller
July 22nd, 2013, 6:44 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Intermediate Level Greek Language Learning
Replies: 10
Views: 7062

Intermediate Level Greek Language Learning

It seems to me that there is a real need for an up-to-date intermediate grammar that gets at how Greek works, and that avoids categories based merely on English translation or on context. To be sure, we need a reference grammar as well http://hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2013/01/major-desideratum.html ,...
by David M. Miller
July 16th, 2013, 3:56 pm
Forum: Grammars
Topic: Funk - A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek
Replies: 32
Views: 50909

Re: Funk - A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic G

Funk identifies the six basic sentence patterns in hellenistic Greek and describes how all actual Greek sentences are derived, via various transformations, from these six patterns I really like Funk's approach to syntax, but have always wondered about its theoretical underpinnings. Can someone with...
by David M. Miller
June 24th, 2013, 5:05 pm
Forum: Resources
Topic: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax
Replies: 16
Views: 11533

Re: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax

I can postpone a final decision on approach* until the end of the summer, but the textbook order deadline for the third semester Greek Syntax course I will be teaching this fall is approaching soon. ...Are there other better alternatives? I'd like something that is clear, accessible, and useful as ...
by David M. Miller
June 13th, 2013, 1:54 pm
Forum: Resources
Topic: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax
Replies: 16
Views: 11533

Best Intermediate Greek Syntax

I can postpone a final decision on approach* until the end of the summer, but the textbook order deadline for the third semester Greek Syntax course I will be teaching this fall is approaching soon. Here are some options: Wallace, Daniel B. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of th...
by David M. Miller
June 11th, 2013, 11:26 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Best Practices for Second Year Greek
Replies: 11
Views: 5645

Re: Best Practices for Second Year Greek

Are there approaches to syntax which are not totally immersed in metalanguage? When the demons of neo-Machenism have been cast out into the swine of second-language-acquisition, the heard rushes headlong over a cliff and drowns in the sea of syntactophobia. Thanks Stirling. I'm not proposing 'synta...
by David M. Miller
June 10th, 2013, 2:56 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Best Practices for Second Year Greek
Replies: 11
Views: 5645

Re: Best Practices for Second Year Greek

David, Thanks for sharing your syllabus. How about this? Introduce “targeted language structures” (syntax points) through TPR, WAYK, and TPRS stories before directing them to read Wallace. You intended last time to concentrate on Luke 14-15. You could use embedded readings to build up to it. Thanks...

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