Telicity tests and syntactic diagnostics are surprisingly relevant for understanding the semantics of the Ancient Greek perfect.
Perfects, telicity, & the stative modifier test
Review Part III: Porter (2015) Linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament
Porter, Stanley. 2015. Linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. This review is a long time coming. I owe it to my readers for their generosity in helping my wife and I get to Cambridge for the Greek Verb Conference (The Greek Verb Revisited) in 2015. A slight revised and edited... Continue Reading →
Aspectual tid-bits: οἰκοδομοῦντι & οἰκοδομήσαντι
There's a shift in aspect from imperfective to perfective as Jesus describing his two house builders in Luke 6:47-49. 47 πᾶς ὁ ἐρχόμενος πρός με καὶ ἀκούων μου τῶν λόγων καὶ ποιῶν αὐτούς, ὑποδείξω ὑμῖν τίνι ἐστὶν ὅμοιος· 48 ὅμοιός ἐστιν ἀνθρώπῳ οἰκοδομοῦντι οἰκίαν ὃς ἔσκαψεν καὶ ἐβάθυνεν καὶ ἔθηκεν θεμέλιον ἐπὶ τὴν πέτραν· πλημμύρης... Continue Reading →
The Attributive Position in Ephesians 4.18
This is a continuation of a couple things. First of all, this is part of my working through Ephesians. But also this post continues to examine the attributive position in the Greek Noun Phrase, which has already been discussed HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE. Ephesians 4.18 in Greek consist of two participle clauses, the second... Continue Reading →
