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Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek, 2nd Edition: A Survey of Basic Concepts and Applications is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume introduces Greek students to the field of linguistics and shows how its findings can increase their understanding of the New Testament. “Curiosity about linguistics and its place in the study of Greek is now too great to be satisfied by the handful of specialized studies written mostly for experts,” observes Black. Hence Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek includes a new...

language without reference to the changes that are a natural part of the development of any language. Second, linguists can take a diachronic approach (Gk. διά, ‘through’ + χρόνος, ‘time’), viewing language from a historical perspective. Included in this area is historical linguistics, the study of the origin and development of the sound patterns of language, of the forms of individual words, of the grammatical relationships between words, and of all other data related to language. A third approach
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