In Part I, we tried to give a basic overview of what aspect is, along with one practical application for paying attention to aspect. In Part II, we considered some of the various points of agreement and disagreement among scholars on this topic. With this background, we are in a better place to discuss perfect aspect. Part III provides a condensation of parts of my chapter on the perfect in Black & Merkle (2020).
Semantics
Andrew Keenan continues his investigations…For the rest of the series, see: Tarnishing the Ideal. Wittgenstein’s work has a […]
But there’s a far simpler explanation of the data that does not need Porter’s overwrought prominence model.
Scholars in Press: An interview with Rachel Aubrey
The introductory volume on linguistics and exegesis to which I contributed two chapters is finally in print. Linguistics […]
Long time readers know that the authors are big fans of Paul Kroeger’s introductory textbooks to grammar and […]
Partitive constructions with ἐκ and ἀπό fall into two general types: entity partitives and set partitives.
This excerpt is from my chapter, “Linguistic issues in Biblical Greek,” in Lexham Methods: Linguistics & Exegesis. It’s published […]
What’s the difference and how do they relate? Pragmatics is a sort of funny thing. On the one hand, […]
I got my hands on this little guy last week: Dirk Geeraerts’ Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to […]
Koine-Greek 