Book Review: Two Volumes on Greek Prepositions Part II

The first two chapters of Luraghi’s volume consist of her introduction and her theoretical foundation. The former includes a number of penetrating observations about the state of Ancient Greek linguistics and its relationship to the broader field. “Ancient Greek is perhaps second only to English as the number of studies devoted to it. Available descriptions [...]

Book Review: Two Volumes on Greek Prepositions

Luraghi, Silvia. On the meaning of prepositions and cases: Semantic roles in Ancient Greek. Studies in language companion series 67. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. (Amazon) Bortone, Pietro. Greek prepositions from antiquity to the present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (Amazon) Many thanks to both Oxford University Press and John Benjamins for their generosity in providing [...]

Greek Verbal Aspect: Interpretation Vs. Evidence

I realized today that I’ve never seen any actual evidence that the imperfective aspect (traditionally, the Present “tense” and the Imperfect “tense”) are used in states of affairs involving customary/habitual action. Now, I have never doubted that this is the case. Definitely not. It is merely that all of the discussion that I can think [...]

SBL Greek Language and Linguistics Website Annoucement E-mail

Randall Tan has given me permission to post the announcement e-mail: Dear members of the Biblical Greek Language & Linguistics e-mail distribution list: An informational website has been set up for the Biblical Greek Language & Linguistics (BGL&L) section. The address is: http://greeklanguageandlinguistics.wordpress.com/ Right now the site contains mainly information that can be hunted down [...]