Notes on grammatical gender that I’m trying to not make boring. English speakers usually imagine this stuff only matters for very narrow and wrong reasons. Part I.
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We regularly get questions or requests for advice about linguistics literature. What books are good? What should I […]
I quoted Rachel Aubrey on twitter a little over a week ago that you shouldn’t trust anything they […]
Will Ross has put together a superb bibliography for Septuagint research from a project for Currents in Biblical […]
The prevailing method for teaching Greek grammar for New Testament students is built on a model that frames […]
What if instructors were able to build lessons for Greek prepositions around physical actions that students could perform themselves both in class and at home? Methods such as this help connect the meaning of the prepositions not to rote memorization, but to physical behavior and actions. Below are some of the more salient uses of ποῦς, ‘foot’ with various prepositions that lend themselves to this type of experiential learning.
Grammatical description necessarily involves a minimum of two languages. There is, first, the object language, the language being […]
Five years after the workshop at Tyndale House, Cambridge our papers are finally being published. Many thanks to […]
The response to my proposal for a linguistics reading group last month went way beyond my expectations. Clearly, […]
In Part I, we tried to give a basic overview of what aspect is, along with one practical application for paying attention to aspect. In Part II, we considered some of the various points of agreement and disagreement among scholars on this topic. With this background, we are in a better place to discuss perfect aspect. Part III provides a condensation of parts of my chapter on the perfect in Black & Merkle (2020).
Koine-Greek 