Greek word order

Differentiating Hebrew and Aramaic Backgrounds in Greek writings

Semitic influence on an ancient Greek writing has been discussed widely in Biblical Studies and Pseudepigraphical texts. In general, it is quite difficult to go deeper and to differentiate between Hebrew influence and Aramaic influence on a particular Greek text. The new volume, Randall Buth and R. Steven Notley, edd., The Language Environment of First-century [...]

By Randall Buth|2017-06-12T21:31:24-07:00May 5th, 2014|Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew verb, Blog, Dead Sea Scrolls, Gospel of John, Greek word order, Greek word order, Hebrew in First Century, Mishnaic Hebrew, New Testament, Pseudepigrapha, synoptic gospels, Syriac, ἑβραιστί, ἐγένετο, ευθυς, τότε|Comments Off

Word Order, Focus-CC (Contextualizing Constituent, Topic) Inversion, Enclitics in Greek

While reading Philemon this morning I noticed what might be considered an inversion of Focus--Contextualizing Constituent (aka Topic) in the pre-verb area. The default order with two marked items, a CC and Focus, is normally from more topical to more salient, that is, first a CC then a Focus, followed by core template orders. Here [...]

By Randall Buth|2013-12-18T12:12:27-08:00December 16th, 2013|Biblical Hebrew, biblical language fluency, Blog, Contextualizing Constituent, enclitic, Greek accents, Greek pedagogy, Greek word order, Koine Greek, Koine pronunciation, Living Koine, quiet spot tracking, reading biblical languages|1 Comment

Greek word order

Differentiating Hebrew and Aramaic Backgrounds in Greek writings

Word Order, Focus-CC (Contextualizing Constituent, Topic) Inversion, Enclitics in Greek

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