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One of the things I have been reflecting on recently, both in reading a fair bit, but also working on the composition of LGPSI, is how useful it is, and would be, to take the WAYK concept of “same conversation” and apply it at the text level. Same conversation is
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One of the things I've become increasingly aware of as a strategy for developing greater comprehension and fluency, is what I've taken to calling 'reading sideways'. In particular, this has crystallised for me lately while reflecting on my reading through the Lingua Latina Per
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Having been asked about how you teach the Greek perfect, or even how you figure it out, I thought I’d start by surveying a range of books that I have to hand or easy access to, to see what they say about the Perfect. The Greek perfect tense for
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Or, how to teach students aspect not time.... Here's how 95% of Greek textbooks teach Greek verbs. 1. Start with the present indicative. Explain it's basically equivalent to your L1 present indicative. 2. Introduce the imperfect indicative. Explain it's basically equivalent to "was
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It’s been a long time since I wrote a post like this. But I think it’s time to resume an end-of-month personal reflection. Language Logging January was always going to be a bit weird on this spectrum. I logged 58’33” altogether. 6’31” for Gaelic
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Well, I hope by this point, I’ve done a few things: 1. Convinced you that Greek has an active v. middle voice system, in which the middle domain covers a range of different categories, all generally united by ‘subject affectedness’ 2. Convinced you that ‘deponency’ is not a useful
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So, about Latin then All through this series (one, two, three, four) I’ve been careful to include Latin examples of the various semantic categories covered. That’s because I’ve often wondered about Latin – does it really have deponent verbs? The answer is, it’s complicated. It’s complicated
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How can you practically do this? How will I be doing this? This is a follow-on post from this one. Firstly, let me address an issue raised by my wife, which is comparing my Latin experience with Mongolian is apples and oranges. Because time spent in Mongolia was overwhelmingly
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We’ve spoken so far about a range of various 'middle-domain' events and actions, and in this post I focus in on our final group, related to Spontaneous Processes and Passive-Middles (See posts one, two, and three to get up to speed. All this work derives
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How many years have you been studying Greek? 18 years. Which is useless information. One of the things that has lodged deep in my brain from listening to Bill VanPatten et al., is that measuring 'years' is not actually very useful. And here's a simple comparison.
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We’ve spoken so far about direct reflexives, and grooming actions, and three categories of body-action middles, including changes in body posture, non-translational motion, and translational motion. (See posts one and two to get up to speed. All this work derives primarily from Suzanne Kemmer and Rutger Allan,
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In today’s post, following on from the last, I’m going to walk through some initial semantic categories which Kemmer presents as mostly or typically used for middle-type situations. I had hoped to get through more categories, but it seems that will need a couple more posts. I’