Advice on methodology - study on και
Posted: October 31st, 2021, 8:02 am
I have started putting together a study on the different uses of και in terms of construction grammar. Mainly something to keep me focussed in learning more about construction grammar and also Greek in the process.
Basically my approach at the moment is not a good one, but is a reasonable start - simply look in different English translations of the NT for the different glosses and start to put together a list. I recognise that using English translation to judge the meaning of a Greek word is not good practice. This would just be to get me the starting list to work through and analyse without hitting uses that are almost certainly best glossed as "and". It wouldn't be to necessarily agree with the glosses without thought. Next to work through the NT grammars as they relate to this, as well as the lexicons. Eventually I will need to read wider literature including classical Greek grammars. I have some work by Drummen to work through who does this approach in classical Greek texts.
My next step is probably going to be to take a few short books of the new testament e.g. Mark and perhaps some of the shorter epistles and look up every instance of και. Logos should give me the list for these books, just a case of then analysing each one.
I have no academic background, and this isn't intended to be an academic study but a way for me to learn. It is nice to have a project in my life again to get mildly obsessive about. Given this lack of academic background I am pretty clueless when it comes to research methodology, but might as well try to apply some basic principles if I can, rather than just be completely ad-hoc in my approach. Any thoughts on ways to approach this topic?
Basically my approach at the moment is not a good one, but is a reasonable start - simply look in different English translations of the NT for the different glosses and start to put together a list. I recognise that using English translation to judge the meaning of a Greek word is not good practice. This would just be to get me the starting list to work through and analyse without hitting uses that are almost certainly best glossed as "and". It wouldn't be to necessarily agree with the glosses without thought. Next to work through the NT grammars as they relate to this, as well as the lexicons. Eventually I will need to read wider literature including classical Greek grammars. I have some work by Drummen to work through who does this approach in classical Greek texts.
My next step is probably going to be to take a few short books of the new testament e.g. Mark and perhaps some of the shorter epistles and look up every instance of και. Logos should give me the list for these books, just a case of then analysing each one.
I have no academic background, and this isn't intended to be an academic study but a way for me to learn. It is nice to have a project in my life again to get mildly obsessive about. Given this lack of academic background I am pretty clueless when it comes to research methodology, but might as well try to apply some basic principles if I can, rather than just be completely ad-hoc in my approach. Any thoughts on ways to approach this topic?