Already by the first century CE, ἐκ & ἀπό have experience over a thousand years of history and […]
Author: michaelaubrey
The overarching dialectic treated in this work is framed in terms of the familiar ‘synchronic-diachronic’ opposition indicative of […]
Many New Testament scholars look at language typology with suspicion. Some believe that using typological studies is dangerous […]
“The habitual association of radical elements, grammatical elements, words, and sentences with concepts or groups of concepts related […]
Today’s the last day to book accommodations for the Greek Prepositions Workshop. So if you don’t have your […]
In the 1970s, Joan Bresnan and Ronald Kaplan took a hard look at where Chomsky’s ideas were headed and did not like what they saw.
Looking toward the future of our grammar writing endeavors, we would like to get a better grasp of where the state of knowledge for the average Greek student/scholar.
You can help us. If we can get good results, we’ll put together a few more polls that deal with more specific issues. Your participation will help us gain a better view of what language topics are important to people and which ones need better explanations in grammars.
How well do you feel you understand what Aspect is?
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This excerpt is from my chapter, “Linguistic issues in Biblical Greek,” in Lexham Methods: Linguistics & Exegesis. It’s published […]
This is part one of a multi-part series. Part II is: A brief history of syntactic theory: Parallel-contraint based […]
Robert Crellin’s Ph.D. dissertation is now available in monograph form at an incredibly reasonable price (retail of $40, currently $33 on Amazon) in the Publications of the Philological Society Series.
The syntax and semantics of the perfect active in literary Koine Greek (Amazon)
It’s an excellent piece of research. He and I have some differences on theoretical issues–I do not at all like Klein (1994) Time in Language, which Crellin uses heavily.
That issues aside, however, his conclusions are basically in agreement with my own simply within a different terminology set and framework and I wholeheartedly recommend his work. I’d like to review it at some point, but my writing is pretty busy for now.
Perhaps this fall.
Of course, you can also read my own analysis of the Greek perfect on Academia.edu here: Aubrey (2014) The Greek perfect and the categorization of tense and aspect.
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