Moving beyond Porter, Fanning, and Campbell : A Linguistically Informed Approach to the Tense System in the Greek of the New Testament
Nylund, Jan H. LU
(2025)
Society of Biblical Literature, International Meeting, Uppsala
- Abstract
- In this paper I summarise the findings presented in my recent PhD thesis in which I include some 80+ linguistic theories from Plato to Usage-based linguistics in order to enquire into the potential of linguistic theories in the study of aspect and tense in Ancient and particularly New Testament Greek. I discuss the challenge of working with several linguistic theories at the same time, the formation of linguistic theory and the importance of pre-Saussurean linguistic thought for the understanding of the Ancient Greek tense system. I point to shortcomings in the theoretical points of departure of Porter, Fanning and Campbell. I criticise weaknesses in structuralism and generative linguistics that both have influenced the works of Porter,... (More)
- In this paper I summarise the findings presented in my recent PhD thesis in which I include some 80+ linguistic theories from Plato to Usage-based linguistics in order to enquire into the potential of linguistic theories in the study of aspect and tense in Ancient and particularly New Testament Greek. I discuss the challenge of working with several linguistic theories at the same time, the formation of linguistic theory and the importance of pre-Saussurean linguistic thought for the understanding of the Ancient Greek tense system. I point to shortcomings in the theoretical points of departure of Porter, Fanning and Campbell. I criticise weaknesses in structuralism and generative linguistics that both have influenced the works of Porter, Fanning and Campbell, and I point to the strengths of multiple other theories, such as functionalism, SFL, grammaticalisation theory, cognitive linguistics and usage-based linguistics.
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- Nylund, Jan H.
LU
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- 2025
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- Greek tense system, Aspect, Verbal aspect, Stanley Porter, Buist Fanning, Constantine Campbell
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- Society of Biblical Literature, International Meeting, Uppsala
- conference location
- Uppsala, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2025-06-23 - 2025-06-27
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- English
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abstract = {{In this paper I summarise the findings presented in my recent PhD thesis in which I include some 80+ linguistic theories from Plato to Usage-based linguistics in order to enquire into the potential of linguistic theories in the study of aspect and tense in Ancient and particularly New Testament Greek. I discuss the challenge of working with several linguistic theories at the same time, the formation of linguistic theory and the importance of pre-Saussurean linguistic thought for the understanding of the Ancient Greek tense system. I point to shortcomings in the theoretical points of departure of Porter, Fanning and Campbell. I criticise weaknesses in structuralism and generative linguistics that both have influenced the works of Porter, Fanning and Campbell, and I point to the strengths of multiple other theories, such as functionalism, SFL, grammaticalisation theory, cognitive linguistics and usage-based linguistics.<br/>}},
author = {{Nylund, Jan H.}},
keywords = {{Greek tense system; Aspect; Verbal aspect; Stanley Porter; Buist Fanning; Constantine Campbell}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Moving beyond Porter, Fanning, and Campbell : A Linguistically Informed Approach to the Tense System in the Greek of the New Testament}},
year = {{2025}},
}