Levels of Constituent Structure in New Testament Greek

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R. Alan Culpepper: "Many scholars work critically within the established categories of their fields. Rarely does one find the scholar who is able to propose new categories. . . . Palmer's proposals represent a major advance over the methodology of traditional grammars and portend far-reaching changes in the ways in which grammars will be written in the future."

R. Alan Culpepper is Dean of the School of Theology at Mercer University.

Roger L. Omanson: "Dr. Palmer demonstrates a thorough knowledge of modern studies in linguistics, especially in the area of syntactic theory, applying recent methodologies in the analysis of constituent structures, he shows that traditional approaches to understanding Greek New Testament grammar are inadequate to explain certain syntactic constructions. This study convincingly shows the need for students of New Testament Greek to become conversant with developments in linguistics."

Roger Omanson is a Regional Translation Consultant for the United Bible Societies.

John Polhill: "In this book, Micheal Palmer presents a convincing case for incorporating the insights of modern linguistics into the study of New Testament Greek grammar. He presents a clear summary of research in linguistics. . . and provides examples of how those methods can enhance the study of New Testament Greek. It is a pioneering work. Every student of New Testament Greek grammar needs to read this book!"

John Polhill teaches at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Table of Contents
Introduction	1
The Impact of Linguistic Method on the Analysis of Constituent Structure in Previous work on New Testament Greek Rationalism Comparative Philology Structuralism Transformational-Generature Grammar Recent Modifications in Linguistic Theory Summary	5 5 7 9 11 13 14
Methodology Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis Problems in Defining a Corpus Formulating Hypotheses Testing Hypotheses A Linguistic Paradigm Summary	17 18 20 24 25 27 29
Syntactic Structure Intuitions as Evidence for a Categorial Constituent Structure Categorial Constituent Structure and Language Acquisition Word-level Categories Morphological Evidence Syntactic Evidence Phrase-level Categories Morphological Evidence Semantic Evidence Syntactic Evidence Words Functioning as Phrase-level Constituents Summary	31 31 34 35 35 37 39 39 40 42 50 55
Evidence from the Structure of Noun Phrases Theoretical Background Precedence and Dominance Relations C-command Rule Form and Interpretation A Reconsideration of the Attributive/Predicate Distinction A Reconsideration of Constituent Structure Levels Complex Noun Phrases Complements and Adjuncts Summary	57 58 58 60 62 65 70 71 77 80
Conclusion	81
Notes for Chapter One for Chapter Two for Chapter Three for Chapter Four for Chapter Five for Chapter Six	85 85 88 97 107 116 120
Bibliography	123
Indices Subject Index Index of Biblical Citations Index of Tree Diagrams of Biblical Texts	137 137 141 145

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