Discourse Features of New Testament Greek: A Coursebook on the Information Structure of New Testament Greek

Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations

Part I: Constituent Order

1. Coherence and Discontinuities
2. Points of Departure
3. Constituent Order in the Comment
4. More on Constituent Order

Part II: Sentence Conjunctions

5. Kai and Ae in Narrative
6. Tote, Non-Conjunctive Kai, and Te Solitarium
7. Thematic Development in Non-Narrative Text

Part III: Patterns of Reference

8. Participant Reference
9. The Article with Substantives

Part IV: Backgrounding and Highlighting Devices

10. Backgrounding of Sentences
11. Backgrounding Within Sentences
12. Highlighting and the Historical Present

Part V: The Reporting of Conversation

13. The Default Strategy for Reporting Conversations
14. More on Reported Conversations in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts
15. Reported Conversations in John’s Gospel
16. Three Ways of Reporting Speech

Part VI: Boundary Features

Appendix
Suggested Answers to Illustrative Passages
Glossary
References
Index of Scripture References
Index of Topics