The question was asked on Facebook about what principles might motivate the occurrence of indefinite noun phrases to […]
Author: michaelaubrey
There is a lot of significant work on Ancient Greek that came out in the 19th century. Some of it was by native Greek speakers. The challenge is that during that period, the politics of language in Greece was a source of constant debate and argument. Many times the ancient language was used as a meant to prop up one’s understanding of the modern one (or as a cudgel against those whose way of speaking one disapproved of). I picked up this book last year and only recently started reading it. It has been an extremely helpful book and has given insight into the various forces that can have an effect on grammar writing, even when you are seeking to be as objective as possible.
And it’s a stern reminder: Even academic work is not done in a vacuum and it cannot escape the political climate in which it is produced.
Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976 by Peter Mackridge
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“For illustrative purposes, let us sketch a plausible (though simplistic) scenario for the evolution of a complex category. […]
Already by the first century CE, ἐκ & ἀπό have experience over a thousand years of history and […]
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.
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