Basic Word Order in Biblical Greek: VSO, SVO, or Both? (Part 5 of Word Order)

July 14, 2022 // The Biblical Languages Podcast

In this episode of the Biblical Languages Podcast, Kevin Grasso discusses the basic word order of biblical Greek.

Show notes

• Basic Syntax Concepts
  
  
• Basic Pragmatics Concepts 
  
  

• Davison, M. E. (1989). New Testament Greek Word Order. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 41, 19-28.

• Friberg, T. (1982). New Testament Greek word order in light of discourse considerations. PhD diss., University of Minnesota.

• Kirk, A. (2012). Word order and information structure in New Testament Greek. Leiden University.

• Lavidas, Nikolaos. (2015). How does a basic word order become ungrammatical? SOV from Classical to Koiné Greek. Studies in Greek Linguistics 35, 323-335.

• Rife, J. M. (1933). The mechanics of translation Greek. Journal of Biblical Literature, 52, 244-252.

• Taylor, A. (1994). The Change from SOV to SVO in Ancient Greek. Language Variation and Change, 6, 1-37.

• Terry, B. R. (1993). An analysis of certain features of discourse in the New Testament book of I Corinthians. PhD, University of Texas at Arlington.

Series

Part 1: Introduction to Word Order with Paul Kroeger

Part 2: Basic Word Order in Biblical Hebrew with Vince DeCaen

Part 3: Copula and Existential Clauses in Biblical Hebrew with Daniel Wilson

Part 4: The VS vs. SV Debate in Biblical Hebrew

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