I just received word that the paper I submitted for presentation at the 2006 national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Washington DC has been accepted. Here's the info:

• Paper: Subjects and Predicates and Complements, Oh My! Searching the New Testament with Sensitivity to Syntax
• Abstract: Logos Bible Software have implemented an edition of the OpenText.org Syntactically Annotated Greek New Testament. One facet of OpenText.org's work isolates clause boundaries. Within each clause, subjects, predicators, complements and adjuncts are identified. This enables searching of the Greek New Testament with sensitivity to clause-level criteria. This advance raises certain questions: How should syntactic annotation be used? What sorts of things can be searched for? This paper examines different sorts of searches that can be pursued from the starting point of a word. Questions like "When is [word] used as a subject?" or "What verbs are used when [word] is a subject?" will be examined and discussed.

If you'll be at ETS in November, make sure to talk to me more about syntax and searching the Greek New Testament. If you're really interested, I have a few articles on the Logos blog with video (here and here) that you can check out in the meantime. In those articles, I walk through some searches using the OpenText.org annotation. Fun stuff!

This sure beats last year -- I only found out my paper was accepted when I read the program book about a month before the meeting!