BibleTech:2010 More Musings

The past two days have been a rush of presentations, technology, and Greek linguistics.  It was exciting to meet some new people with similar interests, reconnect with others, and finally connect faces with names on the internet. There was some exciting talk about collaboration in Greek linguistics work, especially in morphology and syntax – not [...]

BibleTech:2010 in Review – Language Learning

I hope to write a couple posts this week about some of my favorite presentations at BibleTech. My own when rather well, I think — at least I liked it. I initially had too much material ahead of time and spent last week trying to cut down to about 35 minutes so that there would [...]

Translation Affirmation

Douglas Moo confirmed my own thoughts from months ago: Translating the New Testament: Text, Translation, Theology, where I questioned the benefit of a book on translation that doesn’t include any professional translators. The volume does not claim to offer (and does not, in fact, offer) any kind of unifying perspective. I found several of the essays [...]

New Testament Greek Linguistic Databases

File this under “Rant.” We have a good dozen different Greek morphology databases/annotation. We have (currently) two New Testament Greek Syntax databases. Of all of them, only one cites its sources and provides extended analysis and description of why it says what it says. 1 That’s right. How in the world is that acceptable??? I’ve [...]

The Theory behind the Cascadia Syntax Graphs

1. Cascadia Syntax Graphs 1.1 Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar The linguistic framework implemented by the Cascadia Syntax Graphs[1] is Head-driven Phrase Structure (HPSG). HPSG is a generative non-transformational framework in the tradition of “Constraint-Based Lexicalism.” This phrase functions, along with “non-transformational,” as a sort of technical short hand for several of the key tenants of [...]

Discourse Grammar

Just appeared on Eisenbraun: Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis by Steven E. Runge That’s a few years of Steve‘s life and roughly 100-150 hours of my own. Looking forward perusing it’s real pages very soon!

Gignac on χθ & φθ Word Medial Consonant Clusters

Maybe I’m obsessing. Probably. But in any case, I felt validated when these two volumes arrived at my door from Italy. Here’s what he says: And here is his evidence: Francis Gignac, A Grammar of the Greek Papayri of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (Vol. 1; Milano: Istituo Editoriale Cisalpino, 1976), 86, 88-89. All in [...]

Back from my Week Off

Whether any of you noticed that I’m gone is another question. Those of you who I’m friends with on facebook know that my computer died a week ago today. Yesterday afternoon, I was finally able to replace it. I’ve switched from HP to Toshiba and from AMD to Intel. I suppose I’m satisfied with the [...]