Conclusion
Chapter six provides a very brief conclusion (three
and a half pages) which summarizes the main claims of the study--that at
least three levels of constituent categories are necessary to adequately
explain Hellenistic Greek syntax--and offers suggestions for further research.
I point out that the central claims have been stated strongly in order
to make them subject to falsification, a requirement for any valid linguistic
study. The study has developed specific empirical consequences of the three
level constituent structure hypothesis, making it easy to disprove if the
claims had been false.
The relationship of the type of syntactic analysis
done here to broader issues of interpretation of Greek texts is also addressed
briefly in this conclusion, and suggests for further reading are given.