Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics…
My copy of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek arrived in the mail last week. Since then I have had the pleasure of perusing roughly 100 pages of it, not a close and in-depth reading, but at the very least a survey of topics that most interest me. The physical quality of the book is,... Continue Reading →
When we look at aspectual choice in the indicative mood, we find that there are a number of usage-based factors that influence the speaker/writers decision to prefer the imperfective aspect or the perfective aspect. In narrative, the major driver of aspect choice is, of course, grounding (cf. Hopper 1981), but in non-narrative, that becomes less... Continue Reading →
I mentioned in my previous post about Klaas Bentein article on academia.edu (Aspectual choice and the presentation of Narrative. An application to Herodotus’ Histories. Glotta 92 [2016]) that Bentein's insight has relevance to the Greek data about aspect in imperatives--if you still haven't examined it, I would encourage you to take a look. It's an... Continue Reading →
Klaas Bentein just uploaded a paper to academia.edu that's worth reading through on aspect in narrative. Aspectual choice and the presentation of Narrative. An application to Herodotus’ Histories. Glotta 92 (2016) Abstract: In this article, I analyze how aspectual choice contributes to the presentation of Herodotus’ narrative. I argue that the choice for the imperfect... Continue Reading →
It seems that Eleanor Dickey (the author of the superb volume, Ancient Greek scholarship: A Guide to finding, reading, and understanding scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises, from their beginnings to the Byzantine Period) has written a book on Ancient Greek prose composition. She's a classicist whose knowledge and experience would be most certainly make... Continue Reading →
