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Linguistic Historiography Updated
If you already follow my blog, you’ve probably already seen it, but just in case… I’ve added a new entry to my page on the historiography of research on the Greek verb, this time on William Trollope’s...
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Logeion at the University of Chicago
Helma Dik just made an announcement on her website about a online interface for using digitized Greek lexicons from Perseus. She writes: This summer, we launched Logeion, an integrated interface for...
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Occasional Surveys in the History of Greek Grammar: The Stoics
1. Ancient Grammar Charting the history of the study of tense and aspect in Greek in the Ancient and Byzantine grammars is a difficult task simply because of the paucity of information about context,...
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Some Brief Notes on Comrie (1976)
These are just some passing thoughts—nothing serious or revolutionary—on Bernard Comrie’s little monograph on aspect. 1. On the introduction From the perspective of what’s been said in Koine Greek...
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Time is not Tense. Time is not Aspect. But both are Temporal
This started as a comment, responding the an observation made by Rod Decker and grew too long, so I’ve posted it here. He made the comment: >Both aspect and tense are temporal. Both involve time...
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Grammatical Pendantry: Comparatives in English, Greek & Latin
There’s an excellent post on the blog Motivated Grammar about the I vs. Me peeve of grammar pendants, quoting a zdnet blog post on writing: 12. I/Me: We had several different takes on this, with one...
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Once and twice: The countability of events
For the past couple weeks, I’ve been working through David’s Armstrong’s (1981) article, “The Ancient Greek Aorist as the Aspect of Countable Action.” It’s an excellent piece of research and I’ve...
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Read this! Imperatives and the countability of events
I noted in my previous post (Once and twice: The countability of events) that I’ve been reading David Armstrong’s (1981) article, “The Ancient Greek Aorist as the Aspect of Countable Action.” As I said...
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Tense and Conceptual Reality
I have said before on a number of other occasions that the fact that a mismatch between a particular location in time and a particular grammatical form does not, in itself, constitute sufficient...
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Occasional Surveys in the History of Greek Grammar: Raphael Kühner & William...
The translation of Raphael Kühner’s German grammar into English by William Jelf marks the closest we get to a comprehensive grammar of Classical and Hellenistic Greek.[1] And while it does not provide...
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Occasional Surveys in the History of Greek Grammar: G. B. Winer & William...
Despite the production of other New Testament grammars, Winer’s work continued to hold the greatest influence throughout the century and by 1882, it was in its ninth English edition.[1] William...
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Logos Bible Software 5 is Here
Logos Bible Software has released the new version of their flagship project: Logos 5. It incorporates some massive changes in datasets and built in resources while keeping much of the user experience...
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On critiquing other scholars…
For the past couple years now, I’ve generally held back on criticizing other published works of others (with a few small exceptions). This has mainly because of pushback that I’ve gotten from people...
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A brief comment on historiographical issues surrounding aspect
I just wanted to make this passing note. A few posts back, I presented my analysis of the 1882 edition of William Moulton’s translation of Winer’s Greek grammar. In that discussion, I made the...
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A brief comment on telicity and boundedness
I find it difficult to accept the analysis of the Ancient Greek perfect as proposed by Gero and Stechow (2003; LINK: 2002 prepub version), aside from the fact that I think they rely too heavily on the...
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A few comments on grammatical terminology old and new
I know its regularly said by those whose background is in classics and the tradition of classical philology that much of linguistics today and its own set terminology creates a sort of ivory tower...
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Some notes on Ἐργάζομαι & Middle Voice
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...
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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics This goes in the category of absolutely (likely, anyway) excellent reference works that nobody can afford, but everybody should have. Brill is...
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Francis T. Gignac (1933 – 2014)
Christopher Skinner over at Crux Sola has reported news that Francis Gignac has passed away at the age of 81. He will be greatly missed as a scholar and teacher by many. For myself, I consider his...
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Linguistic adequacy and Greek grammars
It has only been in the past couple years that I have realized that for the most part, the vast majority of Greek reference grammars have a significant lack in terms of the claims they make. This is...
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