<br /><br />I have no idea what a "heavy hitter" would mean in this situation. :-\ So I cannot say. I still own it only because I like old books that smell ancient and look cool. For real work I consult Smyth.<br />According to Goodwin he was a real heavy hitter and brought the German works into English. Is this true? I would like to read that preface.<br />
<br /><br /><br />Yes, indeed, it's this Kühner I am talking about.<br />You have the same good habit as me. I also check bibliographies (or if there is none, the preface) of grammers and other books. So I can see which books they have used, that's a good reference. I am always very proud when I see a book in a biobliography, that I own too. <br />Kühner is very accurate and most of all complete. They went through all texts again and they give many quots from ancient authors. They re-analysed all the rules by looking at the ancient texts again. And it's always a good thing if you see an exemple with a rule. So it's like an inventory. The English grammers etc. just had to look in Kühner for knowing the exact place in the ancient texts for having a good exemple and so they did'nt have to read all the texts again. Kühner has also a good structure and he explains difficult rules in an easy way. I think it's also therefore that he influenced many others! It's about that time indeed that the classics had a sort of 'renaissance', I believe it's because they put the stress on the ancient sources again.Kühner - is this the Kühner that influenced American scholars such as Hadley, Goodwin and Smyth.<br /><br />I'm trying to get a solid understanding of why grammars change over the course of time. For me, it's an interesting academic question.<br /><br />One of my favorite things to do when I get a new grammar is read the preface. There's always so much information to be gleamed because the authors always like to pay their respects to other works that have influenced their own.<br /><br />It seems that our modern understanding of Greek grammar has its start in German scholarship around 1840-1860.<br /><br />Is this true? and would you know specifically what concepts these German grammars introduced?<br />
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