New Page on Historiographical Issues in Ancient Greek Grammar

I’ve added a new page tonight that houses my ongoing series of posts on how the Greek tense-aspect system has been described over the centuries: Linguistic Historiography with a brief introduction. I hope it will be a useful presentation and analysis of many old grammars that most people (even most people who are interested in [...]

Occasional Surveys in the History of Greek Grammar: Philipp Buttmann (1833)

Buttmann’s intermediate Greek grammar was translated into English twice, once in Boston[1] and once in London.[2] And while the first translation was an abridgment, the contents of the two translations in the section on tense differ little. For that reason, the larger edition is the focus here which, ideally, more accurately represents the contents of [...]