Have you ever wondered why the Blass-Debrunner grammar (A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature) reads so differently from Moulton-Howard-Turner? Or why more recent studies have proposed such radical departures from some of the analyses found in these grammars? Read this chapter and you will understand why these differences exist and why they are important.
    The differences between the traditional grammars are relatively minor when it comes to the main topic of this book: constituent structure. The basic list of grammatical categories was fairly firmly set by the time they were published and consisted mostly of word-level categories like noun, verb, and preposition. With the application of structuralist methods as early as the 1960s, though, that list began to expand to include phrase-level categories such as noun-phrase, verb-phrase, and prepositional-phrase. The point of this book is that even this two-tier system of categories is not sufficient to explain some very important aspects of Hellenistic Greek grammar.

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