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Mike Aubrey
@mikeaubrey.bsky.social
Linguistics, Ancient Greek, photography, transit, leftist.
Greek linguistics at SIL International
Editor at Koine-Greek.com.
Opinions my own. He/him
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Came across this quote that I collected in 2011 from John Hewson on how people often mistakenly confuse form & function with tense-aspect forms. It feels relevant in the eternally stationary NT Greek aspect debates. #biblicalgreekkoine-greek.com/2011/10/27/c...@koine-greek.com.
Confusion of Form and Function in Tense-Aspect
Fundamentally different approaches have been taken [in the past century of research on tense and aspect … so that definitions have been based on (a) formal, (b) cognitive (c) functional or (d) real wo...
A question I always meant to ask, given your work. Do you feel you could read these texts rather fluently like Indiana Jones finding a tablet in some tomb? Or is it a slow, tedious, research kind of thing?
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Mike Aubrey
@mikeaubrey.bsky.social
Linguistics, Ancient Greek, photography, transit, leftist.
Greek linguistics at SIL International
Editor at Koine-Greek.com.
Opinions my own. He/him
🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸
285 followers254 following307 posts