Languages often have multiple means of communicating the same thing. Lexical inventories overlap; grammatical forms might share related functions.
Category Archive: Linguistics
Compounding and Cogntive Processes in Word Formation with ὑδροποτέω and its relatives: Discussions of lexical semantics often make […]
Panagiotis Filos has written a review of The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek that was published a couple weeks […]
What reasons are there for a Greek speaker to use a reflexive pronoun with a verb rather than the middle voice?
I recently ran a syntax query for places where conjunctions begin the apodosis of a conditional construction. For […]
For those who do not know me, my name is Chris Fresch. I used to contribute over at […]
The introductory volume on linguistics and exegesis to which I contributed two chapters is finally in print. Linguistics […]
There have been a few events of note in the world of book on Greek linguistics this month. […]
It is also no accident that the types of meanings expressed by γίνομαι and εἰμί, one with middle morphology and the other with active morphology correspond effectively one-to-one with the general preferences for other non-linking and low frequency verbs.
Long time readers know that the authors are big fans of Paul Kroeger’s introductory textbooks to grammar and […]
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