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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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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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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’
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I’ve long been of the view that there’s no such thing as deponency in Greek, just verbs that are ‘middle’ and don’t have an active. But recently I was asked (twice) about deponency in Latin, and it got me reading again, which is a great thing. Personally,
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Now that semester two is finally wrapped up across my diverse colleges, it seems an apt time to write some reflections on teaching Intro to Koine Greek 2. At the start of semester I was met with a conundrum - zero of my students were face-to-face. It was to
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There’s two types of modern expressions that present difficulty for speaking ancient languages: * names for things they didn’t have * expressions for things they didn’t say In many cases (1) isn’t so bad. You just have to neologise. How do you say helicopter, television, mobile (=cell) phone,
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We’re now six podcasts deep, and I thought I’d write a little this week about what it looks like for me to put together a podcast. 1: An idea It takes a while for me to come up with ideas, which maybe isn’t a good sign! It
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Most of my classics background involved a 4 year stint as an external student working almost entirely on Latin. I took intro Latin as an adult, and then 3 years of text-based classes. I wish I had kept better notes! It was still being done with postal services when
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Right now I’m heading into week 11 of a 12 week semester teaching a Greek 1 class Koine. I’ve found it frustrating, mainly because I’m frustrated with myself. And as I reflect on that, I decided that if I’m given the opportunity to teach this again,
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Below I have adapted (a lot is basically translated) a short story in Ancient Greek. It's very closely based off a post from Magister P, who runs an amazing blog from which I have learnt a lot of stuff. In particular, I've been quite taken by
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It's a fair question (raised by my also-interested-in-linguistics-wife). Here's my short answer: a communicative approach will produce better readers, with better reading ability, faster. To understand why I hold that position, we need two puzzle pieces: how Grammar/Translation thinks it creates