When is a Sentence a Question?

Dr. Mounce wrote (also HERE) on how to determine whether a sentence is a question today, but he missed probably the most important and most obvious way of determining the illocutionary force of a sentence: If the sentence in question begins with a question word, it’s a question. I promise. Here are some good question [...]

Greek-Lanuage.com Blog

Micheal Palmer announced today that he’s moved his blog from: grklinguist.wordpress.com to: http://greek-language.com/grklinguist/ Be sure to update your RSS subscription or whatever you use to read it. And if you don’t read it, you should probably start.

Choosing a Thesis Topic

Deciding what to write my thesis on has become a greater challenge than I might have anticipated. There are a number of subjects that tempt me, but I find each, in some way, inadequate. Here’s a brief list: The Syntax of the Hellenistic Greek Noun Phrase The Greek Pronominal System: An Analysis of Its Morphology [...]

Long Over Due

After many, many months waiting, a couple book reviews will finally be appearing on this blog. You can expect to see my reviews of: Stephanie Bakker’s The Noun Phrase in Ancient Greek (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology) William Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar, 3rd edition Vern Poythress’ In the Beginning Was the Word: Language–A [...]

Interpretive Arguments, Syntax, & Statistics

I hate arguments that take some form similar: Interpretation A cannot be correct because Greek word X never (or rarely) appears beside (or in proximity) to Greek word Y. Regardless of the truth of the statistical information, I’ve never actually seen a situation where the statistical information provides anything that couldn’t be determined or recognized [...]