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Part 4 of the series Observations from a Linguistic Spectator: An Annual Report For part 1, see here.For part 2, see here.For part 3, see here Introduction In the last post, we’ve considered some basics of grammatical aspect and the lexical actional potential of verbs. This part of the series continues this exploration. In particular, […]

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Part 3 of the series Observations from a Linguistic Spectator: An Annual Report For part 1, see here.For part 2, see here.For part 4, see here. From events to verbs As announced in my last blog post, I want to explore now in more detail the lexical semantics and the lexicography of Greek verbs. Verbs […]

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Part 2 of the series Observations from a Linguistic Spectator: An Annual Report. For part 1, see here.For part 3, see here.For part 4, see here. A Semiotic Framework I’m going to cheat right away in this first post in this series that discusses an actual linguistic subject – quite a bit of what I […]

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Part 1: Introduction For part 2, see here.For part 3, see here.For part 4, see here. Why this blog post series? Beginning this April, I will work as an assistant at the University of Basel at the chair of Prof. Moisés Mayordomo. Already on my second work day, I was going to give a presentation […]

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1. Introduction to Given’s Review and Bayes’s Theorem Mark D. Given has recently reviewed my book Hidden Criticism? The Methodology and Plausibility of the Search for a Counter-Imperial Subtext in Paul for RBL. In this monograph, which was published as part of the WUNT II series by Mohr Siebeck in 2015 and in 2nd edition […]

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Two years ago I wrote a little note on the occasion of the super bowl in order to promote a book of mine. It begins with the sentence: “I have never seen a Super Bowl game in my whole life.” This statement is still true today – and probably very shocking for my American friends. […]

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This post was published contiguously on the Logos Academic Blog. Introduction Two weeks ago, Tavis Bohlinger wrote a blogpost in which he encouraged students and scholars of the New Testament to focus on the “common dialect,” ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος of the Greek language—that is, the Greek spoken roughly between 300 BCE and 300 CE. In […]

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