I was saddened to learn last week of the passing of Albert Rijksbaron. He was 80 years old. He was 80 years old. While I never knew him personally, I have had the great pleasure of knowing and learning from several of his students and also benefiting from his writings and the work of his many students. His Syntax and Semantics of the Classical Greek Verb, Helma Dik’s Word order in Greek, and Rutgar Allan’s The middle voice in Ancient Greek were three the earliest books that I read in Greek linguistics after I finish my linguistics classes at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics back in 2008. Having already been dissatisfied with what was available and existed for New Testament/Biblical Greek, I was searching for alternatives beyond Biblical studies his name appeared over and over. His influence will only continue to grow and we are incredibly indebted to ways that he prioritized and valued bringing together Functional Grammar and Ancient Greek. I cannot emphasize enough the degree to which his work inspired me in my own efforts to connect linguistics and Greek together.
Brill Classics has made freely available an edited volume of his papers: Form and Function in Greek Grammar: Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature.
The University of Amsterdam has written an beautiful obituary (Google Translate).
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