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passing grammar notes

Passing Grammar Notes: Perfects & Persistent Situations

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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.

Mike Aubrey November 29, 2018 English, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Semantics, Translation, Typology

Passing grammar notes: Aspect and grounding in narrative

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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.

Mike Aubrey October 2, 2018 Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax

Passing grammar notes: Negation scope

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Narrow negation, where scope of negation falls on an argument or adjunct rather than on the entire proposition can be […]

Mike Aubrey June 17, 2016 Grammar, Greek, Information Structure, Language, Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax

Passing grammar notes: Comrie (1976) on tense and aspect

These are just some passing thoughts—nothing serious or revolutionary—on Bernard Comrie’s little monograph on aspect. 1. On the […]

Mike Aubrey May 30, 2012 Book Reviews, Books, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics, Semantics

Passing grammar notes: Aspect & aktionsart in the Dead Grammarians, Pt 2

Previously, in Part I, We began by looking at a couple of quotes from Porter in the Handbook […]

Mike Aubrey July 3, 2009 Grammar, Greek, Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics
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