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Vasileios Tsialas, Athens, Greek
"Grammar books do not make language; it is language that makes grammar books. In other words, language existed long before grammar books came into existence. So language is a natural phenomenon that cannot be enclosed in a technical enchiridion."
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There is no reason to think that the writers of the New Testament needed grammar books, and there is no reason to think that any classical Greek grammars specialized on the ins and outs of gender discord.
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And, since the question is interesting, using a little searching we find:
Dionysius Thrax, in the 2nd century bce, produced the first systematic grammar of Western tradition; it dealt only with word morphology.
Art of Grammar (Τέχνη γραμματική, Tékhnē grammatikē).
It concerns itself primarily with a morphological description of Greek, lacking any treatment of syntax.
However,
Although several scholars (notably Pfeiffer and Erbsc) have tried to rebut Di Benedetto’s arguments, most specialists have now accepted
the view that Dionysius Thrax himself wrote only the very first part of the Techni Grammatiki, while the rest of the work, including the classification of the parts of speech, belongs to the 3rd or 4th century AD.6
Grammatikḗ
In the text attributed to Dionysius, the eight classes. which Di Benedetto and others argue was probably developed by Tryphon several decades after Dionysius, are as follows:
Vasileios Tsialas, Athens, Greek
"Grammar books do not make language; it is language that makes grammar books. In other words, language existed long before grammar books came into existence. So language is a natural phenomenon that cannot be enclosed in a technical enchiridion."
===============================
There is no reason to think that the writers of the New Testament needed grammar books, and there is no reason to think that any classical Greek grammars specialized on the ins and outs of gender discord.
===============================
And, since the question is interesting, using a little searching we find:
Dionysius Thrax, in the 2nd century bce, produced the first systematic grammar of Western tradition; it dealt only with word morphology.
Art of Grammar (Τέχνη γραμματική, Tékhnē grammatikē).
It concerns itself primarily with a morphological description of Greek, lacking any treatment of syntax.
However,
Although several scholars (notably Pfeiffer and Erbsc) have tried to rebut Di Benedetto’s arguments, most specialists have now accepted
the view that Dionysius Thrax himself wrote only the very first part of the Techni Grammatiki, while the rest of the work, including the classification of the parts of speech, belongs to the 3rd or 4th century AD.6
Grammatikḗ
- (a) ἀνάγνωσις ἐντριβὴς κατὰ προσῳδίαν (anagnōsis...): reading aloud with correct pronunciation, accent and punctuation.
- (b) ἐξήγησις κατὰ τοὺς ἐνυπάρχοντας ποιητικοὺς τρόπους (exēgēsis...): exposition of the tropes/τρόποι, the figurative language of texts.
- (c) ἀπόδοσις πρόχειρος γλωσσῶν τε καὶ ἰστοριῶν (apodosis...): common exposition of obsolete words and subject matter.
- (d) εὕρεσις ἐτυμολογίας (heuresis...): finding the correct meaning of words according to their origin (etymology).
- (e) ἐκλογισμὸς ἀναλογίας (eklogismos...): setting forth or considering analogies.
- (f) κρίσις ποιημάτων (krisis...): critical judgement of the works examined.[16][e][18]
In the text attributed to Dionysius, the eight classes. which Di Benedetto and others argue was probably developed by Tryphon several decades after Dionysius, are as follows:
- (a) the proper noun (ὄνομα) and its three genders: masculine (ἀρσενικόν), feminine (θηλυκόν) and neutral (οὐδέτερον) are distinguished, together with the five case endings.[f] He also notes however that two other terms are also in use: κοινόν (common) designating those words whose gender varies depending on the sex of the creature, such as ἵππος (hippos/horse)) and ἐπίκοινον (epicene) used to define words whose gender is stable, but which can refer to either sex, instancing χελιδών (khelidōn/swallow).[23]