Updates
Apparently I didn't write a March edition? Probably because I spent the end of February madly trying to complete a paper and several grant applications. It’s really a daunting discipline to write monthly updates like this. it makes me aware of how painfully slow progress can be!
Language
It’s not infrequently that I get asked a version of the first question. It happened a week or so ago, a girl in my research office casually started conversation with, “So, how many language do you speak?” My reaction varies a little based on the question, or more precisely
Philology
The first thing an interpreter needs to do is to examine the text under consideration in order to establish the text. We call this the work of Textual Criticism. Next, the interpreter must read the work. This involves understanding the correct phrasing of the text, and if necessary making decisions
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