On Greek Grammar

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Subsection

Pronunciation, Accents, Ligatures
Greek Grammars & Readers

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Order of Contents

Particles  5
Prepositions  5
Verbal Aspects  16+
Morphology  5
Idioms  3
Discourse  1


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On Greek Particles

Classical

1800’s

Hoogeveen’s Greek Particles Abridged…  trans. John Seager  (London: Longman [1829])  210 pp.  no ToC

Arnold, Thomas K. – A Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition, Part II (The Particles)  1st American ed.  (NY: Appleton, 1852)  260 pp.  ToC

Paley, F.A. – A Short Treatise on the Greek Particles & their Combinations according to Attic Usage  (Cambridge: Deighton, 1881)  105 pp.  ToC

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1900’s

Denniston, J.D. – The Greek Particles  2nd ed.  (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959)  740 pp.  ToC

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New Testament

Thrall, Margaret E. – Greek Particles in the New Testament: Linguistic & Exegetical Studies  (Brill, 1962)  110 pp.  ToC

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On Greek Prepositions

All History

2000’s

Bortone, Pietro – Greek Prepositions from Antiquity to the Present  (Oxford University Press, 2010)  360 pp.  ToC

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Classical

1800’s

Harrison, Gessner – A Treatise on the Greek Prepositions & on the Cases of Nouns with which these are Used  (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1858)  520 pp.  ToC

Adams, F.A. – The Greek Prepositions, Studied from their Original Meanings as Designations of Space  (NY: Appleton, 1885)  160 pp.  ToC  Errata

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1900’s

Kellerman, Ivy – On the Syntax of Some Prepositions in the Greek Dialects, a Dissertation  (University of Chicago, New Era, 1904)  85 pp.  no ToC

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New Testament

Harris, Murray J. – Prepositions & Theology in the Greek New Testament: an Essential Reference Resource for Exegeis  (Zondervan, 2011)  300 pp.  ToC


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On Verbal Aspects, Tenses, Moods, etc.

Classical

Curtius, Georg – The Greek Verb: its Structure & Development  (London: Murray, 1880)  590 pp.  ToC

Goodwin, William W. – Syntax of the Moods & Tenses of the Greek Verb  (Boston: Ginn, 1900)  500 pp.  ToC

Luraghi, Silvia – On the Meaning of Prepositions & Cases: the Expression of Semantic Roles in Ancient Greece  Pre  (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003)  360 pp.  ToC

Rijksbaron, Albert – The Syntax & Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek: an Introduction  Pre  (University of Chicago Press, 2006)  200 pp.  ToC

George, Coulter H. – Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek  Pre  (Cambridge University Press, 2014)  325 pp.  ToC

Bartolotta, Annamaria – The Greek Verb: Morphology, Syntax & Semantics: Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting on Greek Linguistics, Agrigento, October 1-3, 2009  Ref  (Peeters, 2014)  342 pp.  Blurb

“…was aimed at discussing trending issues on the Ancient Greek verbal system from a perspective both synchronic and diachronic.  The contributions of this book analyze phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic phenomena from various areas of grammar pertaining to the verb, using a large corpus which ranges mostly from Homeric to Classical Greek.

There is diversity in the topics covered, but the approach which unifies the volume is that of challenging traditional divisions and rigid boundaries between different levels of analysis…”

eds. Bentein, Klaas,  Mark Janse & Jorie Soltic – Variation & Change in Ancient Greek Tense, Aspect & Modality  Pre  (Brill, 2017)  ToC

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New Testament

Basic

Campbell, Constantine R. – Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek  Pre  (Zondervan)  150 pp.  ToC

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Intermediate to Advanced

1900’s

* Burton, Ernest De Witt – Sytnax of the Moods & Tenses in New Testament Greek  3rd ed.  (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1955)  240 pp.  ToC

Fanning, Buist – Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek  Ref  (Oxford, 1991)

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2000’s

Campbell, Constantine R. – Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, & Narrative: Soundings in the Greek of the New Testament  Pre  (NY: Peter Lang, 2007)  280 pp.  ToC

eds. Runge, Steven E. & Christopher J. Fresch – The Greek Verb Revisited: a Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis: Proceedings of the Linguistics & the Greek Verb Conference, Cambridge Universtiy, 2015  Pre  (Lexham Press, 2016)  ToC

Mathewson, David L. – Voice & Mood: a Linguistic Approach  in Essentials of Biblical Greek Grammar  Pre  (Baker Academic, 2021)  180 pp.  ToC

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Imperatives

Fantin, Joseph D. – The Greek Imperative Mood in the New Testament: a Cognitive & Communicatiev Approach  Pre  (NY: Peter Lang, 2010)

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Middle Voice Verbs

Allan, Rutger – The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek: A Study in Polysemy  Ref  (Gieben, 2003)  278 pp.

“The great variety of usage types of the middle voice in Ancient Greek has excited the interest of generations of classical scholars.  A number of intriguing questions, however, still have been left unanswered.  What is the exact relation between the various middle usage types?  How can the semantic element common to all usage types be defined?  What is the relation between the middle voice and the passive voice in the aorist and future stems?  To provide an answer to these questions, this study takes a novel approach.  Following recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics, the middle voice in Ancient Greek is analysed as a polysemous network category.  This approach results in a unified description of the semantics of the middle voice which also accounts for diachronical developments.”

Kmetko, Susan E. – The Function & Significance of Middle Voice Verbs in the Greek New Testament  Ref  (2018)  Blurb  This was reprinted as Middle Voice Verbs in the New Testament: Studies in Pauline Usage  Ref  (Glossa House, 2022)  Blurb

“…challenges the general lack of significance afforded the 3,726 middle voice verb forms in the Greek New Testament.  She explores the essential meaning of the middle voice in light of the demise of deponency and the resultant implications for Biblical interpretation and translation. Integral to her investigation is the awareness that languages do not neatly map onto each other.  Hence, whereas ancient Greek employed three voices-active, passive, and middle-many modern languages do not.  Consequently, when ancient Greek authors expressed ideas deploying middle verbs, their reduction to active or passive in English or other languages falls short of the intended meaning.

The voice of a verb indicates the relationship of the subject to the verbal process…  the subject acting on, for, or with reference to itself, being affected by the action of the verb, or being internal to the verbal process are among the descriptions that have been proposed.”

“This study focuses on verbs with middle morphology in both present and aorist tenses in Paul’s writing in First Thessalonians and Second Corinthians.  Three criteria derived from a literature survey are applied to the middle verbs in context, indicating that middle verb forms may indeed be shown to have middle function. The results thus generated are then applied to a further sample of middle verbs in Galatians to explore the exegetical implications of reading middle forms as truly middle in function.

This undertaking is shown to contribute to the exegetical fecundity of a text with consequent potential to impact the theological interpretation.  It is therefore proposed that the middle voice of a verb is significant, operating synergistically with the lexical sense, context and other factors encoded by verb morphology, to contribute to the understanding of a New Testament text under consideration.”

Aubrey, Rachel E. – Hellenistic Greek Middle Voice: Semantic Event Structure & Voice Typology  Ref  (Trinity Western University, 2020)  Blurb

“This thesis advocates a semantic approach to Hellenistic Greek middle voice, endeavoring to capture a variety of middle expressions and their internal semantic relations.  Various event types that receive middle expression in Greek form a continuum; they adopt the scale of semantic transitivity as a conceptual foundation for middle phenomena, among middle systems cross-linguistically and in Ancient Greek…

Historical traditions in voice analysis point to syntactic relationships, with alternations framed as choices in clausal subject.  Such narrow definitions do not capture the semantic behavior of the Greek middle.  Neglecting differences in semantic event structure overlooks fundamental aspects of the Greek voice system.  The present analysis describes Greek voice in terms of meaning-oriented distinctions in event structure, as they pertain to shifts in both the type of action and attentional focus regarding facets of an event frame, engaging semantic and pragmatic motivations in voice…”


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On the Morphology of Koine Greek

Intermediate

Mounce, William D. – The Morphology of Biblical Greek  Ref  (Zondervan, 1994)  no page numbers

Stevens, Gerald L. – New Testament Greek Intermediate: from Morphology to Translation  Pre  (Cascade Books, 2008)  638 pp.  ToC

Ranjar, Clifard Sunil – Morphological Analysis of New Testament Greek: A Handbook for Students  Ref  (Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2021)  448 pp.  Blurb

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Advanced

Mussies, G. – The Morphology of Koine Greek  (Brill, 1971)  400 pp.  ToC

Brooks, James A. & Carlton L. Winbery – A Morphology of New Testament Greek: a Review & Reference Grammar  (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994)  475 pp.  ToC

“This book presents every inflectional pattern in the Greek New Testament, explaining the pattern in terms of a formula, showing how principles of phonetic change alter the application of the formula, and giving every word which follows each inflectional pattern.”


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On New Testament Idioms

1800’s

Winer, George B. – A Grammar of the Idioms of the Greek Language of the New Testament  trans. Agnew & Ebbeke  (Philadelphia: Hooker, 1840)  455 pp.  ToC

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1900’s

Moule, C.F.D. – An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek  (Cambrdige, University Press, 1953)  250 pp.  ToC

Porter, Stanley E. – Idioms of the Greek New Testament  2nd ed.  Pre  (Continuum, 1992)  340 pp.  Blurb


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On Greek Discourse in the New Testament

Runge, Steven E. – Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: a Practical Introduction for Teaching & Exegesis  in Lexham Bible Reference Series  Pre  (Hendrickson, 2010)  410 pp.  ToC

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Related Pages

Greek Dictionaries, Parsing Guides & Concordances

New Testament Background, Survey, Authenticity & Introduction

Hebrew Dictionaries & Parsing Guides of the Bible & Rabbinic Literature

Hebrew Grammars