Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics does not ascribe ontological status to his grammatical categories. Maybe that's a problem.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Early Wittgenstein)
Tarnishing the Ideal
Finding Security in a Use Based Grammar and its Applications for Lexical Analysis
A brief note on the perfect and Porter (1989)
But there's a far simpler explanation of the data that does not need Porter's overwrought prominence model.
New series on Wittgenstein in March
Can you imagine how much more complicated it could have been for Elmer Fudd to figure out if its rabbit season or duck season?
Perfects, telicity, & the stative modifier test
Telicity tests and syntactic diagnostics are surprisingly relevant for understanding the semantics of the Ancient Greek perfect.
Happy International Septuagint Day
Happy International Septuagint Day everyone!
Against monosemy: The complete series
This is the entirety of my series of discussion of Charles Ruhl's (1989) monograph On monosemy.
Gender & voice: marriage, divorce, adultery
A few days ago, the Classics Blog, Sententiae Antiquae, had a lovely piece on how language, grammar, and gender often intersect.
A man marries, a woman gets married, but what about divorce & adultery?
Rachel Aubrey investigates.
Passing Grammar Notes: Perfects & Persistent Situations
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.
