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Category Archive: Semantics

The curious case of clusivity marking

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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.

Mike Aubrey March 28, 2020 Grammar, Greek, Hebrew, Language, Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Translation

Soon Ki Hong on the Greek perfect

A new monograph on the Greek perfect in the Peter Lang is coming at the end of this […]

Mike Aubrey December 15, 2019 Books, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Semantics

Unemphatic ’emphatic’ pronouns in Koine Greek

Clitics in Greek
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Dik (2003) gives an analysis of Greek nominative pronouns that suggests that there are occasion were even the […]

Mike Aubrey September 7, 2019 Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Phonology, PoS, Semantics

Tests for tense and aspect

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In a brief discussion published earlier this year, I noted, “Not all Greek verbs inflect as perfects.” I […]

Mike Aubrey September 5, 2019 Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Semantics

Necessary-and-sufficient conditions in a nutshell (or, Is Jesus a zombie?)

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Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]

Kris Lyle June 28, 2019 Beginner, Cognitive Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, Semantics

Break vs. read: Transitivity in Greek

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Primary and secondary grammar classes teach that a transitive clause is a clause with an object: Rachel shattered […]

Mike Aubrey June 20, 2019 Cognitive Linguistics, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology, Voice

The Greek perfect: An overview Slides

The Greek perfect, An overview
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My audience didn’t do a particularly good job participating in the beginning quiz. Next time I’ll need to find some additional incentives.

Mike Aubrey May 20, 2019 Cognitive Linguistics, Grammar, Greek, Historical Linguistics, Language, Lexicography, Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Voice

Rethinking Transitivity and the Greek Perfect

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In preparing for the SEBTS conference, Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate, I […]

Mike Aubrey April 24, 2019 Greek, Historical Linguistics, Language, Lexicography, Linguistics, Semantics, Voice

Not all Greek verbs inflect perfects

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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.

Mike Aubrey April 22, 2019 Grammar, Greek, Historical Linguistics, Language, Lexical Semantics, Lexicography, Linguistics, Semantics

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.

Mike Aubrey April 6, 2019 Grammar, Greek, Information Structure, Language, Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax

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