Middle Voice, Deponency & Language Typology

One of the questions put forward to the panel in the discussion was on the lack of comment from any of the panelists about Suzanne Kemmer’s book The Middle Voice (Typological Studies in Language 23). Stanley Porter responded to the question. He basically dismissed the use of typological study as being unhelpful and potentially dangerous [...]

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Dionysius Thrax & Translating Πάθος

Bernard Taylor’s paper, as I noted previously, surveyed the ancient grammarians to demonstrate that the concept of deponency has no grounding in what native Greek have to say about voice. In my view, it was convincingly argued. In the question and answer time afterward, I asked Dr. Taylor if in his studies of the ancient [...]

Deponency: The SBL Panel Discussion Part I

This is the first post of probably four or five that detail my thoughts on the panel discussion on the topic of deponency as a viable grammatical category for the description of Ancient Greek. As a whole, the panel consisted of Stanley Porter, Bernard Taylor, Jonathan Pennington, and Con Campbell with Randall Tan presiding.  This [...]

Marking Thought and Talk in New Testament Greek

Back when people found her dissertation online about a year ago or so there was significant discussion of it both on several (NT) Greek blogs and on the B-Greek list. Then again when it looked like it would appear published by Paternoster (e.g. HERE), the discussion started up again. When it never materialized from Paternoster, [...]

Greek Language, Linguistics, & Social Identity

Granted, I know that many of you are less interested in these issues than I am, but I thought it would be worth noting that Peter Mackridge, an outstanding Medieval and Modern Greek scholar’s Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976 has now been released in a more affordable paperback version, bringing the price down [...]

Deponency Panel Discussion: Comments Forthcoming

I’ve written up about 1500-2000 words of thoughts and commentary on the SBL Deponency Panel discussion. As soon as I can get it edited, I’ll be posting  those thoughts in sections–probably three or four blog posts. But I’m also at the end of the semester, so there’s plenty that’s keeping me busy right now. Stay [...]