Ambiguity in Bible morphology - How to see alternatives?
The morphological tagging of Bibles in Logos must make choices based on context when there is ambiguity. At least I believe that's true in Greek, but I'm not sure about Hebrew.
Is more information available in Logos about alternative morphology tags...
1) How can I tell where the morphology is sourced from?
2) Can Logos resources or tools show the alternatives?
3) Is there a way to list or identify verses where the ambiguity is "non-trivial"?
For example, in James 4:5, pneuma is tagged noun, nominative, singular, neuter but it can also be interpreted accusative. (See https://blog.logos.com/2007/03/examining_some_3/ )
Note: Doesn't matter to me if the answer applies to Logos desktop or mobile.
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Bob said:
2) Can Logos resources or tools show the alternatives?
Yes, the Exegetical Guide does this. In the Word By Word section, hover over ֫± to see the alternatives.
The options shown will depend on the morphologically-analysed resources in your Library.
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Thanks, that helps. Don't see the +/- to hover over, but maybe it's about having the right resources.
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Try a different RI ... I got it on my third try using the NRSV RI
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Interesting. I only have "forward" interlinears as best I can tell. And when I right click on the NRSV bible resource, it only shows NNSN, but that may be from some default morphology being used with many different resources.
Based on your observation, I looked at a number of other resources. When I tried "The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2005", then both the info panel and a right mouse click shows both accusative and nominative (NASN and NNSN).
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Is this something that is specific to beta or should I be seeing this with the stable version? I'm certain I own Friberg and I may own Logos Greek, but I don't own Swanson.MJ. Smith said:Try a different RI ... I got it on my third try using the NRSV RI
Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.
International Standard Version. (2011). (Lk 2:52). Yorba Linda, CA: ISV Foundation.
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Beloved said:
Is this something that is specific to beta or should I be seeing this with the stable version?
I believe this has been around since Logos 4.
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I learned of it in How do I get the morphological data to persist for comparison? and it appeared to be known to others before that.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Very helpful! Via this I have learned that there is a Mac bug for this that has been around since at least 2015, unresolved!MJ. Smith said:I learned of it in How do I get the morphological data to persist for comparison?
Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.
International Standard Version. (2011). (Lk 2:52). Yorba Linda, CA: ISV Foundation.
MacBook Pro MacOS Sequoia 15.4 1TB SSD
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So I (finally) noticed that there is a resource selector drop down inside the exegetical guide word by word section. Obvious now, but had completely missed it before. Turns out I have a large number of RIs in my library after all.
But none of the 29 of the resources available in my drop down result in a +/-. Including the NRSV NT RI. Although I do show the +/- for Israel in Ex 1:1 as demonstrated in the linked forum thread.
I'm new to all this, but doesn't "NNSN | Direct Object" already give me the same basic information as showing accusative in the +/- hover?
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It's not necessary to change the resource in the selector to see alternative morphologies, but you do have to own different morphologically-analysed Greek NTs. Do you have the Analytical Greek NT (Friberg) or a Swanson GNT?
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No... unfortunately, I don't have any of those resources.
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It's not necessary to change the resource in the selector to see alternative morphologies
If this is true, then my beta installation has a bug.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
If this is true, then my beta installation has a bug.
No, my statement was inaccurate.
It's not necessary to change the resource when it's a member of set of resources for which the Corresponding Words visual filter works. Since Corresponding Words doesn't work between NRSV and Elzevir (because the latter is not "word numbered"), then Elsevir's morphology isn't integrated into the EG when NRSV is selected. (But because Corresponding Words does work between NRSV, ESV, SBLGNT, AGNT, etc. then their morphologies are automatically included and you won't get different results (for the morphological analysis part of EG Word By Word) by choosing different resources.
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Thanks for the clarification
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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It's not necessary to change the resource in the selector to see alternative morphologies
Implied in my statement is "for a particular word". One reason to change resources is when they're based on different manuscripts; when that happens, the manuscript word, lemma, and morphology may of course all be different.
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I happened to run into this tonight - I assume auto-generated without human editing. Not a problem but amusing after this discussion:
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Lee said:
What the variations show often are differences in the theory of morphology being applied ... differences in the description of the function not in the function itself. Hebrew and Aramaic behave in the same way and have some ambiguities as well which is what I think you were asking.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
What the variations show often are differences in the theory of morphology being applied ... differences in the description of the function not in the function itself. Hebrew and Aramaic behave in the same way and have some ambiguities as well which is what I think you were asking.
I know about the ambiguities. Just wondering how they are captured and reflected in Logos which is also what the OP was asking, i.e. do you need an RI or some related resources, how to set it up properly etc.
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The same principles apply ... you can see the morphologies that I have in the shot above... and Bradley description of the necessary mapping function holds as well.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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