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The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek - (Publications of the Philological Society) by Robert Crellin (Paperback)

The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek - (Publications of the Philological Society) by  Robert Crellin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Offers a comprehensive and unified account of the Greek perfect that considers its behaviour in terms of tense and aspect, as well as voice (or diathesis) - Features insights from the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan semantic traditions while addressing the perfect tense in Koine Greek - Incorporates syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate - Utilizes a large corpus of material that has not been previously discussed in a linguistic sense relating to the question of the semantics of the Greek perfect; Primarily for linguists, academics, and researchers specializing in Koine Greek; also for scholars of New Testament Greek linguistics, Classical Greek linguistics, and linguists working on Old Indo-European languages" --<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek</i> incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions to present a unified semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek.</p> <ul> <li>Offers a comprehensive and unified account of the Greek perfect that considers its behaviour in terms of tense and aspect, as well as voice (or diathesis)</li> <li>Features insights from the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan semantic traditions while addressing the perfect tense in Koine Greek</li> <li>Incorporates syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate</li> <li>Utilizes a large corpus of material that has not been previously discussed in a linguistic sense relating to the question of the semantics of the Greek perfect</li> </ul><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>While linguists and scholars have been poring over Koine Greek literary works for centuries, the semantics of the perfect tense continues to be a vexing issue in ancient Greek linguistics. Incorporating the most recent linguistic insights from both the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions, <i>The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek</i> offers a unified, comprehensive semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek. In addition to consolidating material from contemporary authors, noted classical scholar Robert Crellin draws on a large corpus of extant Koine Greek works--including the writings of Josephus, Polybius, Appian, and Plutarch--to address temporal problems of the perfect and pluperfect in Koine Greek, as well as linguistic issues relating to transitivity. After examining the behaviour of the perfect form from a lexical semantic standpoint, chapters incorporate syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate. Revelatory and thought-provoking, <i>The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek</i> offers illuminating insights into the precise meanings of the literary and scholarly writings of the ancient Greeks.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Robert Crellin</b> works for the Greek Lexicon Project, based in the Classics Faculty at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is a former Lecturer in New Testament Greek at the Greek Bible College in Athens, Greece.

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