Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]
Category Archive: English
English has constructions that sort of look like Greek middle voice. The door closed (Greek: ἐκλείσθη ἡ θύρα)Rachel […]
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.
I’m taking a break for Greek linguistics to talk about English punctuation. I’ve been wanting to writ this […]
In working on research for an article I’m in the process of cleaning up for publication, I have […]
Metaphor and analogy drive much (all) of semantic change. The text is from 4 Macc 2:2-3 2 ταύτῃ […]
Though both require relative clauses to begin with a relative pronoun, Greek and English are typologically distinct in […]
It’d be such an incredibly translation if it would be willing to use “brothers and sisters” every once […]
For sometime, I’ve been an advocate for people who do not know the original languages (& probably never […]
The Standard Bible Society . . . . . . exists to reach the world with the Gospel […]
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