Levels of Constituent Structure in New Testament Greek (Studies in Biblical Greek)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: May 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780820421155
Subjects: Greek (Modern); Ancient Greek; New Testament; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Greek language, Biblical; Noun phrase; Syntax; Language
Description: Levels of Constituent Structure challenges the foundations of the established grammars of New Testament Greek. Dr. Palmer demonstrates the sound empirical basis for word-level grammatical categories such as "noun" and "verb" as well as phrase-level categories. His analysis, however, shows that such categories are inadequate for explaining some obvious features of New Testament Greek.

Using assumptions from generative linguistics and abundant empirical evidence drawn from New Testament texts, he argues that these two levels of grammatical categories must be supplemented by a third level between words and full phrases.