“Verbal Aspect Theory” and its companion “Aktionsart Theory” are both phrases that need to be reconsidered. The way it gets used by NT grammarians is anachronistic and leads to misreadings of the grammatical literature.
Category Archive: Linguistics
The second in my series of blog posts comparing Liddell, Scott, Jones, & Mckenzie’s Greek-English Lexicon with Brill’s […]
English has constructions that sort of look like Greek middle voice. The door closed (Greek: ἐκλείσθη ἡ θύρα)Rachel […]
My audience didn’t do a particularly good job participating in the beginning quiz. Next time I’ll need to find some additional incentives.
A few months ago, I was asked to write a blog post about The Brill Dictionary of Ancient […]
My copy of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek arrived in the mail last week. Since then I […]
David A. Black announced on his blog on the entry for Saturday, May 11th that the video presentations […]
William Ross has announced the forming of a new research group at the Institute for Biblical Research, spear […]
What do you see are the main differences between teaching biblical languages to seminary students vs. teaching them […]
Continuing on with my summary of the papers presented at SEBTS’s Linguistics and New Testament Greek Conference, April […]
