Aspect Theory & Aktionsart Theory One More Time

My readers are probably growing incredibly tired of my writing on this topic. I can’t helpful. I keep reading old grammars. And the old grammars keep confirming my view that Porter’s historical survey of the Greek verbal system is wrong. What is it this time? Here are a few quotes from Handbook to the Exegesis [...]

SBL Rome this week

While many of you are enjoying the great ancient city of Rome, I’ll be summitting a mountain on the BC coastal range.

Bibleworks 8 Give Away

Fill out the Form, subscribe to their RSS feed, answer a few questions and you might win a copy of Bibleworks 8: Cal.vini.st First Anniversary Giveaway Its not a bad deal. Not bad at all…

Unusual Wordforms

I was perusing through a variety of texts this morning looking to see whether all of the wordforms I’m using in my morphological analysis/database are attested in the texts that I have on my computer: Josephus, Philo, LXX, NT, Apostolic Fathers, and the Pseudepigrapha. Thus far, I’ve found all of my wordforms. But in the [...]

Summer Reading

I’ll be reading through the entirety of A. T. Robertson’s Big Grammar this summer. I’ve read 250 pages of it thus far.

Syntax as Dependency Relations: Another Look at Opentext.org

Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts describe Opentext.org’s approach to syntax as follows, “Syntax is understood in terms of dependency relations, clause types and complementation structure.” [1] Dependency Relations are relatively self-explanatory. In a given phrase, such as “the man,” the article “the” is in a dependency relationship with the noun “man.” In of itself, there [...]

Greek Blogs – A List

There are likely dozens of other blogs that discuss Greek. In fact I know there are. But the majority of NT blogs tend to be more interested in historical and theological questions than linguistic ones. These blogs will mention Greek in passing or make a comment about a particular word or phrase, but its neither [...]

Greek Blogs

I complained about the dearth Greek blogs recently. But in a great conversation about particples at Text, Community & Mission, I’ve found that Dr. Micheal Palmer began a blog back in March of this year. He and I had e-mailed each other a bit a while back about discontinuous phrases last year and he’s made [...]

What I do when I’m not Studying Greek Part IX

I ran 5.35 miles/8.6k today. First time in a long time. Too long. I had been stuck at 3 miles/5k for months.

Confessions of a Language Geek

Sometimes I read grammars for fun. On occasion, I’ve even perused grammars on languages I’ve never studied.