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Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate is unavailable, but you can change that!

This work offers students the most current discussion of the major issues in Greek and linguistics by leading authorities in the field. Featuring an all-star lineup of New Testament Greek scholars—including Stanley Porter, Constantine Campbell, Stephen Levinsohn, Jonathan Pennington, and Robert Plummer—it examines the latest advancements in New Testament Greek linguistics, making it an ideal...

prototypical active, transitive verb, rendering it intransitive.26 However, again following Allan, it seems to me that with respect to transitivity the middle voice is a marked coding of a departure from the prototypical transitive verb event, while not rendering the verb “intransitive” per se.27 To unpack this concept we need to back up a bit and first establish the prototype. Recent linguistic studies have established that transitivity is not an absolute category but a relative one; that is, transitivity
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