The GRAMCORD Institute is a Washington Non-Profit Corporation founded for the purpose of conducting and assisting the computer-assisted analysis of Biblical languages. Best known for the GRAMCORD Greek New Testament Grammatical Concordance System, the Associate Scholars of the Institute have sought to create linguistic and exegetical tools for research objectives not being addressed by the for-profit commercial publishing sector.
Originally founded in 1976 at Indiana University under the name Project GRAMCORD, the Institute was re-organized and incorporated as a research institute in 1985 under the auspices of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Due to explosive growth, the addition of Associate Scholars from other institutions, and the appointment of Institute Executive Director Paul A. Miller as Visiting Research Professor of Computer-Assisted Studies at Multnomah Graduate School, The GRAMCORD Institute was moved to Vancouver, Washington and reincorporated in 1991.
Most of the software distributed by The GRAMCORD Institute was developed by Institute personnel for their own research purposes and publishing projects. For example, the original GRAMCORD Greek New Testament was developed in order to produce the SYNTACTICAL CONCORDANCE reference work to be published by The University of Chicago Press (see below). Nevertheless, in recent years the Institute has diversified beyond the purely scholarly research tools in order to provide tutorial and instructional materials geared to individuals learning the original languages of the Bible. In contrast to most commercial publishers, The GRAMCORD Institute actively supports all three computer platforms: Macintosh, IBM Windows, and IBM DOS.
Institute Associate Scholars D. A. Carson, Paul A. Miller, and James L. Boyer are under contract with The University of Chicago to produce A SYNTACTICAL CONCORDANCE TO THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT. This reference volume will provide exhaustive concordances for a large number of grammatical/syntactical constructions along with statistical analysis, classification designations, and commentary. For example, the section entitled GENITIVE ABSOLUTES associates five categorization tags with every genitive absolute example in the GET based on such factors as defective/non-defective, order of the elements, and more. The statistical section further analyzes these tags so that the reader may identify usage patterns for particular books/authors, look for correlations to the genre, as well as compare with usage patterns for other constructions. Underway since 1978, this ambitious compilation will culminate in approximately 1200 pages of double-column text. Completion is scheduled for 1997.
The GRAMCORD GREEK NEW TESTAMENT EXPANDED DATABASE PROJECT (GEDP) is a major revision and expansion of the original GRAMCORD GNT first produced by the Institute in 1977. In addition to the refinement of the original classification scheme, the GEDP will add other tag categories beyond the basic morphological scheme of the original database as well as correct and harmonize data from the standard reference works. Electronics links direct the user to the "editorial decisions" that governed the tagging of a particular word in a particular word. When completed, the database will be incorporated into an improved version of the GRAMCORD concordance system. Multnomah Bible College professor Dr. Dale M. Wheeler has been granted a sabbatical leave for the 1995-96 academic year in order to direct this project under the Institute's auspices. He is being assisted by Dr. D. A. Carson, the President of the Institute, as well as Professors Miller and Boyer, the original authors of the GRAMCORD system.
For more detailed information about acquiring GRAMCORD Institute research software, you should contact the Institute directly. (The Institute does not normally distribute through commercial publishing channels although there are exceptions involving particular programs.) When requesting information, please specify your computer platform: Macintosh, IBM Windows, or IBM DOS. (For the more information concerning the new GRAMCORD GNT FOR WINDOWS, see our new "FAQ: GRAMCORD FOR WINDOWS.")
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