Greek
In this post I want to talk about why I think learning accents for Ancient Greek is important, and shouldn't be put off. The Case Against First, let's consider a case against accents. In Duff, "The Elements of New Testament Greek", we are given
Greek
I mean, the answer is kind of simple. You edit and reprint them. If you’re the author. I’ve had occasion this week to consult what Mounce, that most widely used Greek textbook, says about aspect. Similarly, I also dipped into Duff. Now Duff is unfortunately a revision of
Language
Okay, Let’s look at Learning with Texts, and how to get set up and going with it. A lot of information in this post is totally derived from this post over at DIY Classics. I 100% tell you to go and read that post. My aim is to supplement
Greek
Recently I’ve been thinking and reading more about the middle voice. It was first occasioned by some by-the-way comments in Aubrey’s thesis, p204-6. There he gives a typological table derived from Kemmer. Also, in some email exchange, he suggested I check out R.J. Allen’
Language
So, particularly if you’ve come from a Greek/Latin/Classics background, most of what one is taught is how to do a lot of intensive reading. Intensive reading involves talking relatively small segments of texts and analysing, grammatically, each word and segment, mentally parsing and tagging things, and then
Gaelic
I was having a chat the other day to someone about differences between Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) and Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic), and also some of the issues with the grammar introduction sequencing in Duolingo. Duolingo, as far as I can tell, built its core model tree on mapping English to the
Language
I had an interesting (new) wayk experience over the weekend, and thought I would share it with you this week. Most of the time that I’m using WAYK it’s to try and communicate pieces of language to someone else. That is, I’m in the role of a
Language
One of my sidelines this year is to tutor an hour a week for students who are tutoring other students in introductory Greek. It always seems complicated to explain that. We are only in our second week, and in fact the student-tutors have not yet commenced their tutoring of
Greek
Chapter 5 of Aubrey’s thesis returns to the stratosphere, as he takes the analysis done on the perfect in Koine Greek and then considers what this has to say/contribute to how RRG works as an approach for linguistics. Particularly, he wants to consider how the Bybee-Dahl approach
Greek
Apologies that these come out slowly, I am mostly busy trying to get a paper written by month’s end. Here are links to the earlier posts: 1, 2, 3, 4. Today we’re picking up at 4.2.3, which deals with “Gram-specific tests part II: Predicate classes”
Updates
Wow, January flew past! I suppose two weeks of Greek school and one of Latin would do that. PhD I've settled into my desk space at university and begun to find my place in the research again. My desk is covered in books and a couple of computer
Greek
Okay, if you’re coming at this from a Koine Greek angle like me, we’re now getting to the good stuff. In chapter 4 Aubrey takes his methodological work and begins to apply it specifically to the Greek perfect. Firstly, he reviews some of the disagreements about the perfect,