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A translator's guide to conditionals in the NT

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Author: Steve Nicolle

Year: 2021

Track(s):
  • Theory & Practice

Abstract

There are approximately 650 conditional sentences in the New Testament, and translating these can pose numerous challenges. Greek conditional sentences express a wide range of meanings including hypothetical, predictive, counterfactual, and factual conditionals. This paper describes a resource being prepared by a team at the Canada Institute of Linguistics to help translators navigate these challenges.