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Tense-Aspect

Against Verbal Aspect Theory

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“Verbal Aspect Theory” and its companion “Aktionsart Theory” are both phrases that need to be reconsidered. The way it gets used by NT grammarians is anachronistic and leads to misreadings of the grammatical literature.

Mike Aubrey June 1, 2019 Grammar, Greek, Historical Linguistics, History of Linguistics, Language, Linguistics

Rethinking Transitivity and the Greek Perfect

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In preparing for the SEBTS conference, Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate, I […]

Mike Aubrey April 24, 2019 Greek, Historical Linguistics, Language, Lexicography, Linguistics, Semantics, Voice

Not all Greek verbs inflect perfects

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A few weeks ago I put a poll up on Twitter and another one on Facebook, asking whether people thought that a particular verb had the perfect as part of its inflectional paradigm.

Mike Aubrey April 22, 2019 Grammar, Greek, Historical Linguistics, Language, Lexical Semantics, Lexicography, Linguistics, Semantics

A brief note on the perfect and Porter (1989)

But there’s a far simpler explanation of the data that does not need Porter’s overwrought prominence model.

Mike Aubrey April 6, 2019 Grammar, Greek, Information Structure, Language, Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax

We have a history problem in New Testament grammar

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How can there be any substantive discussion about language data or linguistic method if we cannot even agree on the history of research? New Testament Greek grammar is simply broken. And nobody seems interested in trying to fix it. So where do we go from here?

Mike Aubrey October 17, 2018 Grammar, Greek, Historical Linguistics, History of Linguistics, Language, Linguistics, Semantics

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

Review supplement of Porter (2015) Linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament

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While working on editing the three parts of my review into a cohesive whole document to make available […]

Mike Aubrey August 1, 2017 Book Reviews, Books, Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics

The Greek Verbal System and Aspect Prominence – JETS 59/1

Nick Ellis, Mark Dubis, and I have been working together for several years now under the auspices of […]

Mike Aubrey March 23, 2016 Grammar, Greek, Language, Linguistics
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