Since this post is appearing far later than I had intended, I would encourage you to quickly go […]
Category Archive: Semantics
The linguist Charles Fillmore passed away last week. There was an excellent post on the Language Log last […]
Ἐργάζομαι is a bit of a difficult verb to deal with in terms of voice. It’s perhaps the only verb that causes problems (at least at face value) after the rejection of deponency as a valid category for the Greek Voice System. Rutgar Allan categorizes it as an indirect middle (Allan 200, 54). That has always seemed a bit forced. But perhaps there’s some credence to it.
I know its regularly said by those whose background is in classics and the tradition of classical philology […]
I find it difficult to accept the analysis of the Ancient Greek perfect as proposed by Gero and […]
Despite the production of other New Testament grammars, Winer’s work continued to hold the greatest influence throughout the […]
In working on research for an article I’m in the process of cleaning up for publication, I have […]
The translation of Raphael Kühner’s German grammar into English by William Jelf marks the closest we get to […]
I have said before on a number of other occasions that the fact that a mismatch between a […]
I noted in my previous post (Once and twice: The countability of events) that I’ve been reading David Armstrong’s […]
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