Revisiting aspect and Aktionsart : a corpus approach to Koine Greek event typology /

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Author / Creator:	Pang, Francis G. H., author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Description:	x, 299 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Linguistic biblical studies, 1877-7554 ; volume 14 Linguistic biblical studies ; v. 14.
Subject:	Bible. -- New Testament -- Language, style. Bible. -- New Testament. Greek language, Biblical -- Aspect. Greek language, Biblical -- Verb. Greek language, Biblical -- Grammar. Other minds (Theory of knowledge) Typology (Linguistics) -- Religious aspects. Greek language, Biblical -- Aspect. Greek language, Biblical -- Grammar. Greek language, Biblical -- Verb. Other minds (Theory of knowledge)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10559349

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ISBN:	9789004310872 9004310878
Notes:	"This monograph is a revision of my doctoral dissertation (McMaster Divinity College, May 2014)." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	In 'Revisiting aspect and 'Aktionsart'', Francis G.H. Pang employs a corpus approach to analyze the relationship between Greek aspect and 'Aktionsart'. Recent works have tried to predict the meanings that emerge when a certain set of clausal factors and lexical features combine with one of the grammatical aspects. Most of these works rely heavily on Zeno Vendler's telicity distinction. Based on empirical evidence, Pang argues that telicity and perfectivity are not related in a systematic manner in Koine Greek. As a corollary, 'Aktionsart' should be considered an interpretive category, meaning that its different values emerge, not from the interaction of only one or two linguistic parameters, but from the process of interpreting language in context.0.
Other form:	Online version: Revisiting aspect and Aktionsart. Leiden : Brill, [2016] 9789004310889

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Aspect, Aktionsart, and New Testament Greek Studies
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Definitions and Nomenclatural Issues
1.3. History of Development and General Theories
1.3.1. Ancient Greek Philosophers
1.3.2. Grammatical Aspect
1.3.2.1. The Totality Approach
1.3.2.2. The Internal Semantics Approach
1.3.2.3. Cross-Linguistic Discussion and Variations
1.3.3. Aktionsart and the Classification of Verbs
1.3.3.1. Aktionsart and Comparative Philology
1.3.3.2. Vendler's Taxonomy and Event Typology
1.3.4. Aspect, Aktionsart, and Compositionality
1.3.4.1. Unidimensional Approach
1.3.4.2. Tridimensional Approach
1.3.4.3. Compositionality
1.4. Aspect and Aktionsart in New Testament Greek
1.4.1. Traditional Greek Grammars
1.4.2. Aspect and New Testament Greek
1.4.3. Aspect and Aktionsart in New Testament Greek: Two Approaches
1.4.3.1. Non-Vendlerian Approaches
1.4.3.2. Vendlerian Approaches
1.4.4. Assumptions in the Present Study
1.5. Conclusion
2. Approaches to Event Typology
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Post-Vendlerian Developments in Event Typology
2.2.1. Alternative Construals and Class-Expansions
2.2.2. Lexical Semantic Features
2.2.3. Diagnostics and Linguistic Realizations
2.3. Event Typology and New Testament Greek
2.3.1. Fanning: A Traditional Vendlerian Approach
2.3.2. Olsen: A Privative Approach
2.3.3. A Critical Evaluation of Vendler's Taxonomy in NT Greek Studies
2.3.3.1. Transferability
2.3.3.2. Optimal Unit of Analysis
2.3.3.3. Overall Approach
2.4. Moving Forward: A Corpus Based Method
3. A Corpus Approach to Koine Greek Event Typology
3.1. Introduction: Numerical Methods and Biblical Studies
3.2. A Representative Corpus of Koine Greek
3.2.1. Corpus Linguistics and Koine Greek Studies
3.2.2. Classification Criteria and Representative Corpus
3.3. The Compositionality of Telicity
3.3.1. Telicity as an Ontological Category
3.3.2. Telicity and Linguistic Realizations
3.3.3. Telicity and Perfectivity: Dependent or Independent Systems?
3.4. Defining the Data: Activity and Accomplishment
3.4.1. Prefixed Verbs and Telicization
3.4.2. Classifications of Greek Verbs
3.5. Conclusion
4. Telicity and Perfectivity in Koine Greek
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Corpus Analysis
4.2.1. General Remarks and Baseline Measurement
4.2.2. Telle Verb, Telle Environment, and Perfective Form
4.2.2.1. Movement Verbs
4.2.2.2. Telicizing Prefixed Verbs
4.2.2.3. Other Accomplishment Verbs
4.2.3. Null Hypotheses Revisited
4.3. Conclusion
5. Towards an Interpretive Understanding of Aktionsart
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Telicity as an Interpretive Category
5.2.1. The Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Telicity
5.2.1.1. Semantics and Pragmatics
5.2.1.2. The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction in Greek Studies
5.2.1.3. The Shortcomings of the Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction
5.2.2. Positioning Telicity in a Multi-Tier Model
5.3. Conclusion
Appendix A. Proposed Representative Corpus of Hellenistic Greek
Appendix B. Aspect/Mood Distributions and Statistical Analyses
Bibliography
Index

Revisiting aspect and Aktionsart : a corpus approach to Koine Greek event typology /

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