Another voice against these kinds of labels.
There are verbs whose inherent lexical semantics are "perfect-like". This isn't a category of tense/aspect, just an the idiosyncratic realization of meaning in individual lexical items.
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- August 12th, 2021, 3:49 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Present with Perfect Force?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8728
- July 18th, 2021, 6:40 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Question About Accents: Syntactical Implications of εἰμι verses εἰμί
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3573
Re: Question About Accents: Syntactical Implications of εἰμι verses εἰμί
Is this true, false, thought-provoking, nutty, something else? False. Copular verbs always have predicates. Necessarily. The difference in accentuation is motivated on the basis of whether or not εἰμί receives stress on its own or whether it is functioning as an enclitic (i.e. has not stress and at...
- July 18th, 2021, 9:33 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Blog on particles in Greek
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9167
Re: Blog on particles in Greek
No replacement for Denniston, but a nice supplement Denniston has tons of examples (which is great) but outdated theory (which isn’t). I recommend the new Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek for particles. Don't forget Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse ! https://chs.harvard.edu/book/bonifazi-dr...
- July 17th, 2021, 10:48 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Blog on particles in Greek
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9167
Re: Blog on particles in Greek
Thanks for the heads up, James!
- May 27th, 2021, 5:21 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Thesis/Dissetation Topics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7981
Re: Thesis/Dissetation Topics
Quantifiers and demonstratives appear outside the scope of the Greek article. It's typologically weird and deserves a full treatment.
- May 27th, 2021, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Thesis/Dissetation Topics
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7981
Thesis/Dissetation Topics
I made a comment about thesis/dissertation topics on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/michaelgaubrey/status/1397674471062913034 And Jonathan Robie asked if I'd be willing to post a list here to B-Greek. I'll probably cross-post it to Koine-Greek.com, too. Much of this assumes a knowledge of linguis...
- May 23rd, 2021, 2:32 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: John 3:13 and perfect typology
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5515
Re: John 3:13 and perfect typology
Thanks Mike. I shall park it in my “someday I might understand” category for now. Well, I'm not sure I understand it either, so we can both put it in that category for now! :D Porter, arguing against Pierce in BAGL vol 6, using his tenseless view argues the following, but I can’t quite see it In li...
- May 23rd, 2021, 9:10 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: John 3:13 and perfect typology
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5515
Re: John 3:13 and perfect typology
This is *the* hard example for everyone. Two possible readings that I have floating around my head, but haven't done any of the grunt work to evaluate are: A hard subject-state reading something like: "Nobody is an ascender to heaven, except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.&qu...
- May 22nd, 2021, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: The Weekend Papyrus 5-21-2021
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5212
Re: The Weekend Papyrus 5-21-2021
Hi Barry, I am having a little trouble with the sense of χρείαν combined with κατέχω later. Am correct in understanding that he is holding Serenos pending payment of a debt ? My initial reading was more about having a need for him, but that does not seem consonant with κατέχω. But perhaps I am miss...
- May 20th, 2021, 3:14 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: The Weekend Papyrus
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5904
Re: The Weekend Papyrus
Yes. Indeed. That's a fun bit. The style of the letter as a whole creates a bit of formal distance between author & recipient.Barry Hofstetter wrote: ↑May 17th, 2021, 11:48 amAnd notice the use of the optative χαίροις instead of the more usual χαῖρε.