Pronominal Clitics in Noun Phrases: The Data

The primary pronominal clitic form we find within NP’s is the genitive singular =μου. The equal sign, “=,” is the traditional linguistic symbol for marking a clitics relationship with its phonological host. Together the two grammatical words form a single phonological word. In terms of the examples we’ll be examining in this post, our focus [...]

The Word Order of Clitic Pronouns

A few days ago I posted a few texts where we had the very same clause used six times and a seventh time nearly identical. In that post, I simply asked a question: What makes them tick? At that point in time, I didn’t give much explanation. Well, actually, I didn’t give any explanation. I [...]

New Page to the Sidebar

I added a new page to my side bar today, compiling into one place my discussion of Devine & Stephen’s book on discontinuous syntax in Ancient Greek.Currently, the seven Over time, a few other series will be made available there as well. For example, I plan on formalizing into something more coherent than the few [...]

If you want to understand Greek Information Structure…

One of the best ways to go about it is to look at parallel passages in the Gospels and think about how Matthew, Mark, & Luke conceive of the same event and convey their priorities about that event using word order. This fact that really came to the forefront for me this afternoon as I [...]

Lexicon Reviews

I’m sure many of you saw recently Danker’s review of Muraoka’s new LXX Lexicon. It was noted briefly on the B-Greek list and most bloggers are subscribed to RBL’s e-mail announcements or RSS. In either case, here it is: Review by Frederick Danker Read the Review Published 4/3/2010 Citation: Frederick Danker, review of T. Muraoka, [...]

Τίς & Τις

Seriously, is the distinction grammars drawn between τίς & τις overdrawn? Semantically, do not both express indefinite meaning? Is not the relationship between the two essentially the same as that between ἐμοῦ and μου? That is, distributionally, ἐμοῦ is used to express the discourse functions Topic and Focus, whereas μου is used to for completive [...]

Greek Voice as a Lexical Process

I had the pleasure of reading a delightful article on voice this past week: Masayoshi Shibatani, “Voice” in Morphology: An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation (Vol. 2; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004), 1145-165. This is one of those books that you’d tend to only dream about buying, but never actually do it. Well, maybe [...]

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In Soviet Russia…

… consonants palatalize you! How Computers Can Do Fieldwork For You: A Case Study—Chit Fullah I laughed so hard at that. But more relevant parts of the newest issue of the Speculative Grammarian for reader of my blog: How to Do Fieldwork on Proto-Indo-European—Tim Pulju Between these two articles, they’ve almost as good as: The [...]