Events and Books of Note

I’ve been gone for the past month or so, not such much because of work, but because of reading. I’ve been working on writing book reviews for three books that should have been reviewed this spring while also writing a journal article.  My wife and I have also been house sitting. She’s working too much [...]

Reading Secondary Literature

As I’ve moved from analyzing pronouns to reading the secondary literature about them, I am utterly shocked by two things: How truly vast the literature on pronominal clitics is (both typologically across language and with reference to Greek) How embarrassingly unaware NT scholarship is of it. Our discipline should really, really be ashamed. It makes [...]

Pronominal Clitics Attaching to Verbs with Focal Constituents

Specifically, here, we are talking about instances where the pronominal clitic attaches to the verb in spite of the fact that there is a fronted focal constituent which would provide an optimal host for the clitic. In a previous post, some tentative conclusions were drawn regarding this phenomenon on the basis of several contrastive examples. [...]