Tense and aspect are central for narrative text. The perfective and imperfective aspect, particularly, are essential for how an author builds a narrative structure and signals to the reader the flow of the story.
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Category Archive: Discourse Analysis
I could have sworn that I had mentioned Lars Nordgren’s book, Greek Interjections Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics at some point before, but apparently not. I can’t find the post. In any case, his book received a detailed review in the latest issue of the Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Coulter George:
Nordgren’s book is, of course, expensive on Amazon (here), though with all such monographs, patient waiting can often land you a reasonably priced copy–I picked one up about a year ago.
The author has a academia.edu page, as well, but he has not uploaded any papers.
There’s a brand new dissertation from the University of Texas Arlington (where many SIL dissertations have arisen) on […]
It’s available in print now and sold like hotcakes at ETS & SBL…assuming that hotcakes sell really, really […]
Just appeared on Eisenbraun: Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis […]
I’m totally ripping this off directly from the B-Greek list, but its definitely worth it if I can […]
That’s the title of an article in Filología Neotestamentaria 19 (2006). The full title is: IS VERBAL ASPECT […]
Another important book that we’ll never be able to afford: Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek Edited by S.J. […]
No, this post isn’t going to provide a comparison of how word order in Classical Greek differs from […]
This won’t be long, but a few people asked for it and its worth writing about in any […]
