Languages around the world exhibit a tremendous amount of diversity. Translation and exegetical resources designed centrally for English will not work as effectively for other languages around the world.
Category Archive: Semantics
A new monograph on the Greek perfect in the Peter Lang is coming at the end of this […]
Dik (2003) gives an analysis of Greek nominative pronouns that suggests that there are occasion were even the […]
In a brief discussion published earlier this year, I noted, “Not all Greek verbs inflect as perfects.” I […]
Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]
Primary and secondary grammar classes teach that a transitive clause is a clause with an object: Rachel shattered […]
My audience didn’t do a particularly good job participating in the beginning quiz. Next time I’ll need to find some additional incentives.
In preparing for the SEBTS conference, Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate, I […]
A few weeks ago I put a poll up on Twitter and another one on Facebook, asking whether people thought that a particular verb had the perfect as part of its inflectional paradigm.
But there’s a far simpler explanation of the data that does not need Porter’s overwrought prominence model.
