That moment when you read in BDAG that κοιμάω is: in our lit. only in pass. and w. act. […]
Semantics
This is part three of a three part series. Part one can be found here: State predicates and the Greek […]
This is part two of a three part series. Part one can be found here: State predicates and the Greek […]
Somehow this post ended up being 2000 words long. I’ve broken it into three smaller parts which are […]
Transitivity isn’t a binary thing. You can scale it across usage. This is clear in things like lexical […]
I’m way behind on using this website to record and document ongoing publications that interface Greek and linguistics. […]
For those who skipped over the nonsensically long post before this one, I successfully defended my thesis on […]
Ἐργάζομαι is a bit of a difficult verb to deal with in terms of voice. It’s perhaps the only verb that causes problems (at least at face value) after the rejection of deponency as a valid category for the Greek Voice System. Rutgar Allan categorizes it as an indirect middle (Allan 200, 54). That has always seemed a bit forced. But perhaps there’s some credence to it.
I have said before on a number of other occasions that the fact that a mismatch between a […]
