I noted in my previous post (Once and twice: The countability of events) that I’ve been reading David Armstrong’s […]
Category Archive: Linguistics
Recently, I have been working through David’s Armstrong’s (1981) article, “The Ancient Greek Aorist as the Aspect of […]
There’s an excellent post on the blog Motivated Grammar about the I vs. Me peeve of grammar pedants, […]
This started as a comment, responding the an observation made by Rod Decker and grew too long, so […]
These are just some passing thoughts—nothing serious or revolutionary—on Bernard Comrie’s little monograph on aspect. 1. On the […]
1. Ancient Grammar Charting the history of the study of tense and aspect in Greek in the Ancient […]
Helma Dik just made an announcement on her website about a online interface for using digitized Greek lexicons […]
Trollope wrote his grammar with the goal of it functioning as a supplement to Buttmann, specifically focusing on […]
There were a number of major themes that were regularly touched on, including the issue of open source […]
Metaphor and analogy drive much (all) of semantic change. The text is from 4 Macc 2:2-3 2 ταύτῃ […]