New Dissertation on the Greek Imperfect in Luke

There’s a brand new dissertation from the University of Texas Arlington (where many SIL dissertations have arisen) on the Greek periphrastic imperfects in Luke’s Gospel: A Discourse Analysis Of The Periphrastic Imperfect In The Greek New Testament Writings Of Luke by Carl E. Johnson. Here’s the Abstract: Motivated by Bloomfield’s belief that linguistic variation is [...]

The Middle Voice Panel Discussion: An Interim Comment

Buist Fanning’s review of The Linguist as Pedagogue: Trends in the Teaching and Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament edited by Porter & O’Donnell for the RBL has been made available at the RBL Website. Of note for our purposes are Dr. Fanning’s comments about Pennington’s contribution to that particular book: Jonathan T. Pennington’s [...]

Clarifying Allan & Kemmer on Middle Voice: Markedness

Two important questions came up during the SBL panel discussion on deponency that are worth commenting on here at length. One was the challenges of polysemy: is it more helpful to describe the middle voice in terms of a single broad meaning or in terms of multiple meanings or usages? The other was the question [...]