Primary and secondary grammar classes teach that a transitive clause is a clause with an object: Rachel shattered […]
Passing Grammar Notes
It is sort of taken as a given in grammars that the perfects in these two languages are different, but there is surprisingly little discussion of exactly what that means or how they are different.
This second post on predicate types and narrative structure applies the discussion from the previous post to English and then Greek examples
When we talk about the concepts of background and foreground, it needs to be emphasized that we are […]
Tense and aspect are central for narrative text. The perfective and imperfective aspect, particularly, are essential for how an author builds a narrative structure and signals to the reader the flow of the story.
Did you know that there are different types of negation? Sometimes negators (“not” words in English) only affect […]
These are just some passing thoughts—nothing serious or revolutionary—on Bernard Comrie’s little monograph on aspect. 1. On the […]
Previously, in Part I, We began by looking at a couple of quotes from Porter in the Handbook […]
The more I read the Greek grammars of earlier centuries, the more I conclude Dr. Porter’s historical survey […]
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