About Me…

“ΕΝ ΕΦΕΣΩ” is “in Ephesus” in English. As with many books, the subtitle is more revealing than the main title: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics. And that’s what you’ll find here. The origin of the main title goes back to my initial grammatical studies on the text of Ephesians, primarily focusing on the phenomena of ellipsis and how it relates to the mental representation of the speaker and the perceived mental representation of the audience. Ellipsis is a pragmatic device where new or unknown information is related to  known and accessible information creating cohesion in the  discourse. This in turn helps the audience relate the new information to concepts and ideas that they are already familiar with.

I’m a linguist who focuses on Hellenistic Greek. I’ve done graduate studies in linguistics at a number of schools including the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and the Canada Institute of Applied Linguistics at Trinity Western University. I am also the Greek Languages and Linguistics Moderator for the B-Greek forums.

The majority of what I write here consists of initial drafts of various thoughts I have on a number of topics related to Hellenistic Greek. Most of it relates to books I’ve read. Nothing I’ve put together here is thoroughly edited or anything like that, though I generally go back through posts on occasion and polish them up. Others fall by the wayside.

I’m also a rock climber. I climb a 5.10.

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