From: Sidney Fulton (fulton@scottsburg.com)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 08:10:14 EDT
Wayne,
I do not have any background in linguistics but I do have an interest in
learning more about the role of word order as it applies to biblical Greek.
I have attempted to read up on this topic and have found that there really
is not a lot of information about Greek word order. I am familiar with
Porter and have read almost every grammar that is available.
Do you know of any books that would approach this topic from the
perspective of linguistics? I am hoping to find something that would
explain an approach or method that could be used to determine what is going
on in the language.
Any thought would be appreciated. My e-mail fulton@scottsburg.com
Sidney Fulton
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Leman <wleman@mcn.net>
To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 05, 2000 4:51 PM
Subject: [b-greek] Word Order and Zero Anaphora
>Clay,
>
>What Givon (who I have studied under) and other language typologists have
>noticed is that there is often a correlation between morphological
>positioning of pronominal affixes and other word order factors in a
>language. But it's not a direct correlation (and would probably only obtain
>if the language clearly also has syntactic word ordering), and I would
>definitely not want to call NT Greek an SV (or VS) language simply because
>it has pronominal suffixes instead of prefixes. I personally don't think NT
>Greek has any underlying *syntactic* word order, but I've stated that here
>before, so I don't need to belabor the point. I do *know* that NT Greek has
>pragmatic word ordering where ordering of clausal elements is affected by
>discourse-pragmatic factors such as contrast, emphasis, focus, etc.
>Cheyenne, the language with which my wife and I work as Bible translators,
>has a similar kind of pragmatic word order system. In fact, my wife wrote
>her M.A. thesis on "Cheyenne Major Constituent Order". It's been published
>by SIL.
>
>Cheers,
>Wayne
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>Wayne Leman
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>
>
>
>> A few additional observations. I don't think T. Givon is really
suggesting
>> using bound verb morphology for compiling statistics on word order in
>Hebrew
>> or any other language such as NT Greek.
>>
><snip>
>>
>> Clay
>
>
>
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