On April 6, 2016 reader David Mccollough raised a question about the connection between the middle voice and intransitivity. Since his question elicited a short discussion that may be of interest to many readers, I am reproducing it here. παυσονται in 1
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In 2016 Vit Bubeník published a paper in Graco-Latina Burnensia with the title given above. I have added that article to A Comprehensive Bibliography of Hellenistic Greek Linguistics at both Greek-Language.com and GreekLinguistics.com. Here is what the author says about his paper in the abstract:
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Today I deleted the content I had uploaded to Academia.edu and closed my account. I took this action after contacting Academia.edu multiple times about the deceptive emails they send to get people to sign up for their premium service. I’m looking for
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In 2016 Francesco Mambrini published a chapter in the book, Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber, edited by M. Romanello and G. Bodard and published by Ubiquity Press in London. Mambrini’s chapter is entitled, “The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank: Linguistic Annotation in a Teaching Environment.”
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About a year or so ago, I added Klaas Bentein’s paper from the first issue of 2017 of the Journal of Greek Linguistics to the bibliography at Greek-Language.com (and GreekLinguistics.com). The article treats forms of complementation for verbs in the post-classical and early Byzantine
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For some time now the automated exercises for the first two lessons of the online grammar have been inoperative. I designed new ones today to solve that problem. Lesson 1 Exercise 1.1 Exercise 1.2 Lesson 2 Exercise 2.1 Enjoy. SaveSave
The Gospels and Acts from the New Testament form a small part of what will be covered by the forthcoming intermediate lexicon from Cambridge, projected to become available for purchase next year. The following video (just under 10 minutes in length) gives
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I’m enjoying the 67° weather (19.4° C) in Miraflores, investigating the future middle and passive in Ancient Greek. My goal is to read every occurrence of the future non-active forms in the Greek New Testament before returning to the US in a
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This evening a dear friend gave me this Roman coin from 410, the year the Visigoths sacked Rome. Thank you, Allen! While this clearly has nothing to do with Greek, I’m posting it here as a personal note to express my utmost
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