Search found 3111 matches

by Stephen Carlson
March 5th, 2012, 10:06 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Aspect of Historical Present (split from Augment and Aspect)
Replies: 29
Views: 17117

Re: Augment and Aspect

KimmoHuovila wrote:My theoretical frame of reference is explained more fully at http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hu ... wardsa.pdf.
Thank you for sharing this link.

Stephen
by Stephen Carlson
March 4th, 2012, 5:48 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Can Greek words have more than two forms?
Replies: 5
Views: 1819

Re: Can Greek words have more than two forms?

I had always thought that when a Greek word had multiple forms (for example present active indicative.2p and present active imperative.2p) it could only have two forms, one in the indicative and one in the non-indicative. But then I came across this word which seems to have three forms: the word is...
by Stephen Carlson
March 3rd, 2012, 9:45 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Aspect of Historical Present (split from Augment and Aspect)
Replies: 29
Views: 17117

Re: Augment and Aspect

thanks for the clarification. However, that doesn't change the overall argument. Good! Why? Because 'aspect-only' requires that the historical present be naturally 100% imperfective. When it becomes obvious that many a historical present would naturally require an aorist, they must recognize the th...
by Stephen Carlson
March 3rd, 2012, 9:41 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Augment and Aspect
Replies: 7
Views: 4085

Re: Augment and Aspect

I wonder what the difference between Campbell's notion of remoteness and the view that the augment marks verb forms as prototypically, but not categorically, past? This is near to upper limit of my understanding, so I may be wrong, but... Campbell tries to find a rule without exceptions and thinks ...
by Stephen Carlson
March 2nd, 2012, 9:53 am
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Aspect of Historical Present (split from Augment and Aspect)
Replies: 29
Views: 17117

Re: Augment and Aspect

I should clarify that Sihler thinks that historical presents come from both imperfect and aorists that were augmentless. He mentions that this origin of the historical present has been "convincingly argued" but due to the nature of his grammar there are unfortunately no citations to the li...
by Stephen Carlson
March 1st, 2012, 4:42 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Aspect of Historical Present (split from Augment and Aspect)
Replies: 29
Views: 17117

Aspect of Historical Present (split from Augment and Aspect)

I reviewed what Andrew Sihler's comparative grammar of Greek and Latin has to say about aspect and the augment, and here's my distillation of it. Sihler regards the parent language (PIE) as distinguishing eventive verbs and stative verbs. Stative verbs did not have tense and eventually became the Gr...
by Stephen Carlson
February 29th, 2012, 5:02 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: John 8:25
Replies: 60
Views: 19063

Re: John 8:25

I think it is clear that that particular statement in BDF is a self-affirmation and therefore not valid evidence. And I do not care about reputation; I care about knowing the truth. If the truth is that BDF is correct, then I would like to see direct confirmation and not ambiguous examples. If not,...
by Stephen Carlson
February 29th, 2012, 1:34 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Augment and Aspect
Replies: 7
Views: 4085

Re: Augment and Aspect

That's helpful, Eeli. Based on what you've (and others) have said, there does appear to be some difference in Decker's and Campbell's understanding of remoteness, but I'd have reread them for that specific distinction in mind. I wonder what the difference between Campbell's notion of remoteness and ...
by Stephen Carlson
February 29th, 2012, 1:26 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
Replies: 93
Views: 3602225

Re: Why not start with modern Greek?

In my view, classical Greek is like classical Latin, Koine Greek is like Vulgate Latin, and modern Greek is like Italian. I've studied both Italian and Latin, and based on my experience I'm not convinced that learning Italian before studying Latin is the best way to go about learning Latin. Neverthe...
by Stephen Carlson
February 29th, 2012, 10:44 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Learning Methods: Memorization of passages
Replies: 6
Views: 18029

Re: Learning Methods: Memorization of passages

My Greek teacher required me to memorize a Greek text--I still remember it after almost 30 years. I also require my Greek students to memorize a text.

I don't know what the Hoffman method of memorization is, though. What is it?

Stephen

Go to advanced search