GENERAL VOCABULARY FEATURES
GENERAL VOCABULARY FEATURES
Introduction
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In evidently the general direction of Tom Troxel's doctoral computer project, Warren Trenchard has developed in book form as The Student's Complete Guide to the Greek New Testament (as based on the UBS 3 [corrected]), which gives a (a) complete alphabetical list of New Testament vocabulary, (b) complete frequency list; (c) complete grouping of cognate words, (d) complete principal part list, (e) fairly extensive prefix and suffix list for nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs; and complete list of (e) proper words, (f) elision forms, (g) proclitics, (h) enclitics, (i) postpositives, (j) prepositions, (k) improper prepositions, (l) number words, (m) masculine nouns of the first declension, (n) feminine nouns of the second declension, (o) masculine and feminine nouns of the second declension, (p) masculine and neuter nouns of the second declension, (q) masculine and feminine nouns of the third declension, (r) masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns of the third declension, (s) Aramaic words, (t) Coptic words, (u) Hebrew words, (v) Latin words, (w) Persian words, and (x) "Semitic" words. Some or all these features could be part of the computer project. A number of other vocabulary classifications appear in the following organization of the language's vocabulary. The idea has been to identify as many vocabulary features in the language as possible. If incorporating all these features into the project itself is not feasible, then it would seem to make sense to set up the project in such a way as to make possible an expansion of the original idea so as to include the additional features later.
What is here has also been organized with a view to being able to add on top of the sheer vocabulary function of the computer program what would amount to (1) an analytical lexicon application, which would provide additional practical uses. An analytical lexicon function would not only analyze each form, but give a brief statement of meaning (and so serve something of the role of an abbreviated dictionary and identify the dictionary form in each case; cp. Zondervan's Analytical Lexicon).
A second development that could piggyback on the original project plus the analytical function would be (2) a grammatical search feature that could then be applied theoretically to all Greek literature. The whole corpus of literature could be analyzable within subunits like author, century, dialect, poetry vs. prose, inscriptions, papyri, the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament (and other translations as well), the New Testament, etc., etc. For the Greek New Testament, of course, this project has been done by GRAMCORD (Version 4.05b).
A Layout for Vocabulary Analysis of the Greek Language
Accents
dictionary forms, as found on
antepenult [proparoxytone]
penult acute [paroxytone]
penult circumflex [properispomenon]
ultima acute [oxytone]
ultima circumflex [perispomenon]
accenting patterns
recessive [-μα nouns; nouns from verbs in teira, twr, tria; α-privative adj., finite verbs]
persistent [nouns, adjectives, pronouns, participles]
Breathing marks
rough: vowels, diphthongs, ρ
smooth: vowels, diphthongs
Compounds, types of (not inclusive of morpheme-root combinations)
non-prepositional compounds
root + ______
root + ______ + ______
prepositional compounds
preposition + ______
preposition + ______
preposition + preposition + _______
preposition + preposition + _______ + _______
Contracts [nouns, adjectives, verbs]
Crasis [kajgwv (kai; ejgwv), kajkei' (kai; ejkei'), toujnantivon (to; ejnantivon), tou[noma (to; o[noma] [See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 288]
Demonstratives [pronouns, adjectives]
Determiners [articles, demonstratives]
Diersis words [eJbrai>kov", ÔEbrai?", ÔEbrai>stiv, quvi>no", for example]
Elision words [See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 288]
Enclitics [See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 289]
Gender: masculine, feminine, neuter
I-diminutives [usually neuter even if referring to male or female, except -isko"/-iskh]
Indeclinable words [nouns, adjectives, names of the letters of the alphabet]
Interrogatives [pronouns, adjectives, adverbs]
Irregular words [nouns (3rd decl. pou'", ou\", u{dwr), adjectives, verbs]
Letters of the alphabet
numerical symbols [accompanied by underlining, exponent, or subscript]
Loan words [Aramaic (See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 297)]
[Coptic (See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 297)]
[Hebrew (See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 297)]
[Latin (See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 298)]
[Persian (See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 298)]
["Semitic" (See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 298)]
[Unknown origin (See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 288 ¶3)]
Long words, exceptionally (beyond 12 letters?)
Movables, words with:
Negatives [pronouns, adverbs]
Number words [nouns, adjectives, adverbs] [See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 292]
Parts of speech:
article
noun
pronoun
adjective
verb
adverb
preposition
conjunction
interjection
particle
part of speech, words capable of serving more than one
[aujtov" (adj., intensive pr., personal pr.)] [pa'", adj. pronoun] [i[dio"]
Postpositive forms vs. prepositive forms [conjunctions, prepositions, particles, and words as combined within compounds] [See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 290)]
Prefixes, non-prepositional
α-privatives [nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs]
α-privatives before consonants
α-privatives before smooth breathing
α-privatives before rough breathing
a-collective or intensive
ajrci-, dus-, euj-, hJmi-, nh-,
Proclitics [articles, pronouns, verbs, prepositions] [See Trenchard's Voc Guide, 289]
Relatives [pronouns, adverbs] [239, note Goetchius]
Roots [See Metzger Lex Aids 49ff.; Trenchard, Voc Guide, 5ff]
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