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How did Mounce find out these results in Accordance?


Mutien Chen

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According to Mounce, in the book of Basics of Biblical Grammar at footnote in the chapter 12(2003) it mentioned,

 

"Accordance lists 143 occurrences in the New Testament of autos as the adjectival intensive pronoun, but it includes the autos as the identical adjective(below). It lists 14 as a reflexive pronoun. "

 

I tried to use Accordance find out the same result and what the 14 reflexive pronoun are, but I just didn't know how and couldn't get the same. It's a little bit frustrated that couldn't know how did Mounce made those. Dose anyone can find out the same result as Mounce?

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If you use a Greek construct window, you can add "reflexive" as a class of pronoun, but as far as I can tell Accordance never classifies the lexeme αὐτός as reflexive. Combining that label and lexeme gives zero hits (NA-28). For the reflexive pronoun with no lexeme specified, I get: 

 

ἑαυτοῦ (αὐτός) of himself, his own = 319

ἐμαυτοῦ (ἐγώ, αὐτός) of myself, my own = 37

σεαυτοῦ (σύ, αὐτός) of yourself (sg.) = 43

 

In the "subclass" field we have the options "intensive" or "adjectival". The latter gives no hits (with no lexical constraints. I ran it in LXX too just for fun and still nothing. I'm not clear one why this label is there.) The "intensive" subclass gives me 181, all αὐτός. These results appear to include everything Mounce is discussing in 12.9 - 12.11. Perhaps Accordance has changed its classification scheme since Mounce ran those searches?

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This is certainly possible since originally we used the GRAMCORD NT, then switched to using Mounce's tagging on the NA27, but have since added more detail to the tagging.

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Thanks Susan and Helen, now I know why I couldn't do the same search. This also raises a interesting issue, in the past, we can always find out how a scholar's ideas built up by the reference books, but currently the digital books or software changed rapidly that we are not that easy to confirm a scholar's research by the tool we have or whatever a open source digital library.

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