Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics…
Long time readers know that the authors are big fans of Paul Kroeger's introductory textbooks to grammar and syntax. Analyzing grammar: An introduction Analyzing syntax: A lexical-functional approach The former is an introduction to grammatical analysis focusing on morphology and syntax and the latter focuses on syntax specifically and is slightly more technical. The focus... Continue Reading →
Two quote from Rulh (1989) On monosemy...
The full length review of Stanley Porter's 2015 collection of essays, Linguistic Analysis, is available on Academia.edu: Review of Porter (2015) Linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament
We have uploaded our slides from the Tyndale House Greek Prepositions Workshop to Academia.edu. They're available below:
While working on editing the three parts of my review into a cohesive whole document to make available as a PDF, I realized that I had neglected to write anything at all on chapter 11. I have corrected this in the original post and also provide the added portion below. I wish it was more... Continue Reading →
Morten H. Christiansen & Nick Chater published an excellent article in Nature yesterday: Toward an integrated science of language. This is where linguistics as a whole is headed: "At the heart of this emerging alternative framework are constructions, which are learned pairings of form and meaning ranging from meaningful parts of words (such as word endings, for... Continue Reading →
Porter, Stanley. 2015. Linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. This review is a long time coming. I owe it to my readers for their generosity in helping my wife and I get to Cambridge for the Greek Verb Conference (The Greek Verb Revisited) in 2015. A slight revised and edited... Continue Reading →
Paul's Triumph: Reassessing 2 Corinthians 2:14 in Its Literary and Historical Context by Christoph Heilig. Don't let the title fool you. While it appears to be a relatively standard New Testament studies monograph (and there's nothing wrong with that), this book is also of great interest to Greek linguists as well, focusing primarily on the... Continue Reading →
Books such as this one are a good reason to continue to pay attention to non-English scholarship on Ancient Greek: Rousseau, Nathalie. 2016. Du syntagme au lexique: sur la composition en grec. Collection d'études anciennnes. Série grecque, 154. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. The title translates more or less as "From syntax/syntagm* to lexicon: On compositionality... Continue Reading →
