In my survey of recent books in Greek grammar from 2021, I realized that I was missing one. […]
Category Archive: Linguistics
Part I: Mussies (1971) on Greek genderPart II: Gender as classificationPart III: Gender marking within the noun phrasePart IV: […]
Notes on grammatical gender that I’m trying to not make boring. English speakers usually imagine this stuff only matters for very narrow and wrong reasons. Part I.
We regularly get questions or requests for advice about linguistics literature. What books are good? What should I […]
I quoted Rachel Aubrey on twitter a little over a week ago that you shouldn’t trust anything they […]
The prevailing method for teaching Greek grammar for New Testament students is built on a model that frames […]
Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]
Words do not have senses. At least in the sense we like to think they do. In this post we’ll look at a new model of mapping meaning that’s gaining momentum among Cognitive Linguistics.
Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]
The meaning of words and expressions are notoriously difficult to analyze. Lexicographers have their work cut out for them in building a dictionary. Most often their methodology is based on subjective methods. But this makes it difficult to challenge their conclusions — at least in a capacity that relies on more than strong personal convictions. Is there another way to doing the backend investigations of lexicography?
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