Re: Nature of Koine v. Classical?

• To: rod.j.decker@uwrf.edu
• Subject: Re: Nature of Koine v. Classical?
• From: Larry Swain <lswain@billings.lib.mt.us>
• Date: Thu, 8 Sep 1994 21:31:34 -0700 (PDT)
• Cc: b-greek@virginia.edu
• In-Reply-To: <01HGVVKP6C1GQPEZWP@kinni.acc.uwrf.edu>

I would like to take a moment and add a bit to the Koine discussion 
here.  When it is said that Koine is "More clear" than classical-it 
should be said that Koine is clearer to a non-natice speaker of Greek 
than to a native-hence some of the noteworthy grammatical differences 
such as less use of particles, emphasis on pre-positional statements 
rather than on post position, generally simpler and more direct sentence 
structures.  The "clarity" is from a matter of perspective.

-Larry Swain
Parmly Billings Library
lswain@billings.lib.mt.us

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