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Category Archive: English

Grammaticalization: The Circle of Life

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Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]

Kris Lyle February 25, 2022 Beginner, Cognitive Linguistics, English, Hebrew, Linguistics

Grammar Notes: Grammaticalization

English has constructions that sort of look like Greek middle voice. The door closed (Greek: ἐκλείσθη ἡ θύρα)Rachel […]

Mike Aubrey May 27, 2019 English, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics

Passing Grammar Notes: Perfects & Persistent Situations

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It is sort of taken as a given in grammars that the perfects in these two languages are different, but there is surprisingly little discussion of exactly what that means or how they are different.

Mike Aubrey November 29, 2018 English, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Semantics, Translation, Typology

Oxford Comma Memes: Evidence Against the Oxford Comma?

I’m taking a break for Greek linguistics to talk about English punctuation. I’ve been wanting to writ this […]

Mike Aubrey January 20, 2016 Cognitive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Language, Linguistics, Meme, Not Studying Greek

A note on Lambrecht (1994) on sentence accents

In working on research for an article I’m in the process of cleaning up for publication, I have […]

Mike Aubrey September 20, 2012 Books, English, Grammar, Information Structure, Language, Linguistics, Musings, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics

Translating Metaphor: He just snapped for no reason!

Metaphor and analogy drive much (all) of semantic change. The text is from 4 Macc 2:2-3 2 ταύτῃ […]

Mike Aubrey February 3, 2012 Cognitive Linguistics, English, Greek, Hermeneutics, Language, Lexicography, Linguistics, Translation

Greek and English Relative Clauses

Though both require relative clauses to begin with a relative pronoun, Greek and English are typologically distinct in […]

Mike Aubrey November 13, 2009 English, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Syntax

Holman Christian Standard Bible

It’d be such an incredibly translation if it would be willing to use “brothers and sisters” every once […]

Mike Aubrey October 20, 2009 English, Greek, Translation

Poll on Translation & Hermeneutics

For sometime, I’ve been an advocate for people who do not know the original languages (& probably never […]

Mike Aubrey October 11, 2009 English, Greek, Hebrew, Hermeneutics, Poll, Questions, Translation

The ESV & the Standard Bible Society

The Standard Bible Society . . . . . . exists to reach the world with the Gospel […]

Mike Aubrey September 28, 2009 English, Missions, Translation

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