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The other day I was riding the bus to university and happened to be on the same bus as a fellow member of my church. They were expressing a typical sentiment about full-time research students: that they ought to be ‘incredibly disciplined’ since there are very few external constraitns
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Are you having fun yet? You can read parts 1 and 2 first. Today we pick up at section 3.2.1, in which Aubrey talks about 2 approaches to categorising up how the perfect ‘fits in’ to languages. But I’m going to flip things up a bit by
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For part 1 click here. Today I’m going to talk my way through Chapter 3 of Aubrey’s thesis. What did Aubrey do in Chapter 2? He told you all about Role and Reference Grammar and then said, “hey, why doesn’t it do a good typology/classification of
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I’ve started reading Mike Aubrey’s masters thesis, which I suggest you do too. To get the statement of bias out of the way, I have vague sympathetic feelings towards Aubrey based entirely on internet interactions, and recommend his updated-just-enough-to-keep-you-subscribed blog. Apart from
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It is, of course, the summer in the Southern hemisphere. We are now into the second week of the Greek summer school, and we've moved on from Polycarp's Martyrdom to Perpetua's. The text of Perpetua is quite a fascinating one. If you read the
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And we're back... I thought I better get back into the blogging saddle before too much of this year sailed by. I hope you all had an enjoyable break. Christmas and New Year fall in summer here in the southern hemisphere, so there is a lot of swimming
Language
Foreword: this is our last post for 2014. Enjoy your holidays and you'll hear again from the Patrologist in 2015. In this second of twin posts I’m exploring common ‘defeater’ reasons people give for sticking to GT as a method and rejecting approaches like Communicative Instruction. In
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In this fourth and final part of my review of Decker’s book, I cover chapters 21-33, the Appendices, and some concluding comments. On p386, introducing participles, Decker gives the example text “I will be heading to bed right after the game. (This verbal form has a subject, so
Greek
I might stop posting here about every video, but here's another one to brighten your Friday. I do a lot of talking in English about techniques in this one, but there's plenty of Greek too. Next week I'll have some more videos in a
Language
In twin posts I’m going to explore some of the reasons people teach classical languages (by which I mean Ancient Greek, Latin, and similar languages that are mostly no-longer spoken and primarily of academic or historical interest) via the Grammar-Translation method (i.e. teaching grammar explicitly and
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It’s not my intention to give you an exacting series of comments on every chapter, so I’ll move a little quicker now and spend more time discussing points of interest. I was interested to see that in chapter 11, p200, Decker includes in his definition of χάρις “A
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You can read the first part of this multi-part review here. In this second part of the review I offer thoughts and comments on the first 10 chapters of the text. Decker demonstrates a great ability to write clear and communicative introductions to ideas that will strike English monoglots