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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...

Morphologists classify words into at least two categories: simple and complex. A simple word such as dog seems to be an irreducible unit: there seems to be no way to break it down further into meaningful parts. On the other hand, the word dogs seems to be made up of two parts: the noun dog and a plural ending (-s in this case). Not every noun in English forms its plural in this fashion, but many do. In linguistics these meaning-bearing parts of a complex word—that is, the different building blocks
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