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by Alan Bunning
April 23rd, 2014, 6:50 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Splitting Compound Verbs?
Replies: 107
Views: 20416

Re: unsuffixed, desuffixed prepositons proper, and insulatin

Are you aware that in earlier times (Homer) the preposition was separate from the verb that we later see it joined to? Going back to this question, since the language was written scriptio continua how did they know that the prepositions were separated from the verb in earlier times? I have discover...
by Alan Bunning
April 21st, 2014, 4:03 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Splitting Compound Verbs?
Replies: 107
Views: 20416

Re: One of the middling chapters of Moule Idiom

I am not averse to doing more work if I have to and I will if that is warranted by the evidence. Sounds like I still have some more digging to do. There is a section in Moule dealing with what you want to ask. He considers which prefixed prepositions have a recognisable meaning and in which cases t...
by Alan Bunning
April 20th, 2014, 8:04 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Splitting Compound Verbs?
Replies: 107
Views: 20416

Re: unsuffixed, desuffixed prepositons proper, and insulatin

Are you interested to discuss the surrounding syntax being included as I introduced about παραθεῖναι? Sorry, I was meaning to get to that but I was travelling and had a bad Internet connection. I was trying to respond to the issue in general with this statement: “- You have to use context to determ...
by Alan Bunning
April 20th, 2014, 12:35 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Splitting Compound Verbs?
Replies: 107
Views: 20416

Re: Splitting Compound Verbs?

After a few posts, I think some of you are now finally beginning to understand what I have been struggling with. Let me propose the following analogy which I think might further illustrate the issue. Suppose that one day some grammarian decide to join all adjectives to nouns as compound words. Thus,...
by Alan Bunning
April 19th, 2014, 10:34 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Splitting Compound Verbs?
Replies: 107
Views: 20416

Re: Splitting Compound Verbs?

My favorite parallel in Greek to "understand" is ὑπηρέτης. Does it mean "under-rower?" No, it means "servant..." For nouns, there are many types of compound words that I believe must have their own lexical entries. I am not really addressing nouns here, and there is no...
by Alan Bunning
April 19th, 2014, 8:20 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Splitting Compound Verbs?
Replies: 107
Views: 20416

Re: Splitting Compound Verbs?

My favorite parallel in Greek to "understand" is ὑπηρέτης. Does it mean "under-rower?" No, it means "servant..." For nouns, there are many types of compound words that I believe must have their own lexical entries. I am not really addressing nouns here, and there is no...
by Alan Bunning
April 19th, 2014, 8:19 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Splitting Compound Verbs?
Replies: 107
Views: 20416

Re: Splitting Compound Verbs?

This is the kind of argument that I like to test against my own native tongue, being the one that I have the best intuitions about. It's cognate with Greek and makes verb + adverb/preposition/thingy compounds in a very similar way to Greek (do any other language families in the world form compounds...
by Alan Bunning
April 18th, 2014, 6:41 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Splitting Compound Verbs?
Replies: 107
Views: 20416

Splitting Compound Verbs?

As I am preparing to release my transcriptions for the Center for New Testament Restoration , there has been one issue that I have wrestled with for years that I first posted to B-Greek back in 2007 regarding word divisions. The general rule that the CNTR texts aspire to follow is that “words should...
by Alan Bunning
April 16th, 2014, 9:19 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Publication ideas
Replies: 19
Views: 5288

Re: Publication ideas

Textual Criticism 1. Examples of how the current apparatuses contain errors, are incomplete, and not very useful for doing any serious work in textual criticism. This thread appears to be dead now, but I was kind of surprised that I didn't get any responses about this item. I am wondering if that i...
by Alan Bunning
April 16th, 2014, 9:13 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Feedback on Greek Voice Tagging and Rationale
Replies: 59
Views: 16321

Re: Two "feeler" questions

The document to which I'm seeking feedback here is intended to serve a narrower objective, namely, explaining why tagging verbs in terms of voice inflection only is more helpful to users of a parsed text than the existing tagging of verbs in terms of a convoluted scheme of unpredictable and scarcel...

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