In my survey of recent books in Greek grammar from 2021, I realized that I was missing one. […]
Category Archive: Grammar
Part I: Mussies (1971) on Greek genderPart II: Gender as classificationPart III: Gender marking within the noun phrasePart IV: […]
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.
I quoted Rachel Aubrey on twitter a little over a week ago that you shouldn’t trust anything they […]
Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]
What if semantic research could be based on stats and not just gut? For several decades this has been a reality more are coming to experience. Read on and let me catch you up.
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 […]
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).
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