A Greek grammar of the New Testament and other early Christian literature

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A translation and revision of the 9th -- 10th German ed., incorporating supplementary notes of A. Debrunner, by Robert W. Funk Introduction : 'New Testament Greek' ; The koine ; The place of the NT within Hellenistic Greek -- Phonology : On orthography ; Phonetics in composition ; Major vowel changes ; Other sound changes ; On the transliteration of foreign words -- Accidence and word-formation : Declension : First declension ; Second declension ; Contracted forms of the first and second declensions ; Third declension ; Metaplasm (fluctuation of declension) ; Declension of foreign words ; Adjectives: new feminines and comparison ; Numerals ; Pronouns. Conjugation : Introduction ; Augment and reduplication ; -ω verbs ; -ΜΙ verbs ; Supplement: catalogue of verbs. Adverbs ; Participles ; Word-formation : Word-formation by suffixes ; Word-formation by composition ; The formation of personal names. Vocabulary -- Syntax : Subject and predicate : Omission of the verb είναι ; Omission of the subject. Agreement : Agreement in gender ; Agreement in number ; Constructio ad sensum ; Agreement with two or more co-ordinate words ; More serious incongruencies (solecisms). Use of gender and number : Gender ; Number. Syntax of the cases : Nominative ; Vocative ; Accusative ; Genitive ; Dative. Syntax of prepositions : Introduction ; Prepositions with one case ; Prepositions with two cases ; Prepositions with three cases. Syntax of adjectives : Attributive ; Predicate adjective corresponding to an adverb (or prepositional phrase) ; Comparison. Syntax of numerals ; The article : 'Ο ή τό as a pronoun ; The article with a substantive ; The article with adjectives used as substantives ; The substantivizing article with numerals, adverbs, etc. ; The article with appositives ; The article with two or more attributives ; The article and the position of the attributive ; The article with predicate nouns ; The article with pronouns and pronominal adjectives ; The article with two or more substantives connected by καί. Syntax of pronouns : Personal pronouns ; Reflexive pronouns ; Possessive pronouns ; Reciprocal pronouns ; Αύτός as intensive and identical ; Demonstrative pronouns ; Relative pronouns ; Interrogative pronouns ; Indefinite pronouns ; Derivative pronouns ; Pronominal adjectives. Syntax of the verb : Voice : Active ; Passive ; Middle. Tense : The present indicative ; The imperfect and aorist indicatives ; The present and aorist imperatives and the prohibitive and adhortative subjunctives ; The present and aorist infinitives ; The present and aorist participles ; The perfect ; The pluperfect ; The future ; Periphrastic conjugations. The moods : The indicative of secondary tenses in main clauses ; The future indicative for volitive expressions in main clauses (instead of the imperative and subjunctive ; The subjunctive in main clauses ; Indicative and subjunctive in subordinate clauses ; The optative ; The imperative ; The infinitive ; The participle. Adverbs and particles : Negatives ; Adverbs ; Particles and conjunctions : Modal particles ; Co-ordinating (paratactic) conjunctions ; Subordinating (hypotactic) conjunctions. Sentence structure : Asyndeton ; The period ; The parenthesis ; Anacoluthon ; The use of parataxis in the vernacular. Word and clause order : Word order ; Clause order. Ellipsis, brachylogy, pleonasm : Ellipsis and brachylogy ; Pleonasm. The arrangement of words: figure of speech : Figures of expression ; Figures of thought.