INDEX OF SUBJECTS
adjectives 57
anarthrous constructions 59
arthrous constructions 58, 58n2, 59
comparison 62
comparison chart 63
adverbs
comparison 70–71
comparison chart 70
formation 67–68
anaphoric/cataphoric 42–43, 75, 79, 80
aorist tense. See verbal aspect: perfective aspect (aorist)
article
absence of 74
Apollonius’s canon 85–86
Colwell’s rule 86–87
definiteness 72–74
Granville Sharp’s rule 83–84
as pointer 72–73
aspect. See verbal aspect
aspectually vague verbs 114
asyndeton 259
case
accusative 28
accusative subject of infinitive 32–34
ἀκούω with genitive versus accusative 21
dative 22
verbs with direct object in dative 26n27
genitive 11–12
categorizing 12
πίστις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ xviii, 16
subjective versus objective 3, 14–17
interpretation of 2
labels 2–3
nominative 3
expressed subject 4–5
identifying predicate nominatives 5–6
vocative 9–10
clausal complement 255
construction of 229–30
embedded 228
illustration of types 228
primary 227–28
secondary 228
conditional sentences 163–64, 169–70, 234–42
apodosis/protasis 234
assertion (class 1) 235–36
contrary to fact (class 2) as subset 238
conditional chart 242
hypothetical (class 3) 240
means of classifying 235
conjunctions, classification of 258–60
logical 260
paratactic/hypotactic 259
descriptive versus prescriptive grammar xx–xxi
discourse analysis 271
cohesion 271–72
discourse boundaries 275
participant roles 285–89
prominence 277
ways of showing 278–85
English translation xvi–xvii
Fanning, Buist M. 112
future tense form (expectation) 137
unique place in verb system 137
grammatical maximalism xvii–xviii
grammatical minimalism xvii–xix, 2
Decker, Rodney J., on minimalism xviii
imperatives
entreaties or requests 185–87
imperative/prohibition chart 178
imperatives and verbal aspect 177–78
other ways to express commands 189–90
ἵνα expressing content 255
indirect discourse 256–58
infinitives
aspects with 192–93
chart with prepositions 198–99
chart with verbs followed by infinitives 197
subject of 193–94
Levinsohn, Stephen H., on participles 211–12, 212n12
Luther, Martin, on languages xxii–xxiii
middle voice
deponency 151–52
meaning 148–49
middle only verbs 152
≠ reflexive 148
-θη- as a middle ending 152
translating 149
mood
assertion 161
direction 176–77. See also imperatives
infinitives. See infinitives
mood comparison chart 160
projection 165
projection and contingency 174
relation to reality 160
subjunctive versus optative 173–74
number with verbs 155
agreement 155
lack of agreement 156–59
neuter plurals 156
participles 205–6
adverbial participles (circumstantial) 210–11
relation to main verb 211–12, 213, 214
importance of article 206
participles as main verbs 220–21
periphrastic
constructions 223–25
meaning 225
passive voice 145
accusatives with passives 146–47
expressions of agency 147–48
subject focus 145
perfect tense and aorist 135–36. See also verbal aspect: stative aspect (perfect)
pluperfect tense. See verbal aspect: stative aspect (pluperfect)
Porter, Stanley E. 112, 112n4, 114, 116–17
prepositions
chart on cases governed 90
Ἐν Χριστῷ 101
overinterpretation 91–92
prefixed to verbs 93
prepositional phrases 91
proper and improper 91
ὑπέρ and substitution 108
present tense. See also verbal aspect: imperfective aspect (present)
historical/narrative present 126–27
not continuous action 125
principle parts of verbs 291–96
pronouns
antecedent/postcedent 36–37
αὐτός
identical 39–40
intensive 40
definition 35–36
ὅστις and ὅς 53–54
relative pronoun 47
ambiguous antecedents 52–53
antecedents 47
direct attraction 48
headless relative 51
indirect attraction 49
internally headed 51–52
lack of gender agreement 49–51
purpose versus result 253
questions
direct 44
identifying 232
indirect 44
rhetorical 161–62
relative clauses 243
as embedded clauses 244–45
as secondary clauses 244
semantic functions 245–46
Robertson, A. T. 58–59, 59n4, 74–75, 119, 192, 211n11
Runge, Steven E.
on conjunctions 262–63, 265, 266
on discourse analysis 289
on participles 213–14
semantics versus pragmatics xxi
Silva, Moisés xvii–xviii, xviiin3, 11
software and languages xxi
tense. See verbal aspect
textlinguistics. See discourse analysis
time and Greek verbs 117
transitivity and voice 143–44
verbal aspect
aspect versus traditional view chart 139
chart on the Greek aspects 114
definition 112
discourse function 115–17
imperfective aspect (imperfect) 130–31
imperfective aspect (present) 113, 125
perfective aspect (aorist) 113, 119–20
remoteness and verbs
imperfect 130
pluperfect 136
showing prominence 278
stative aspect (perfect) 113, 133–34
stative aspect (pluperfect) 136
tense labels 117–18
voice. See middle voice; passive voice
Wallace, Daniel B.
word and clause order 279
Young, Richard A. 234–35