Ancient Grammar
Whiggishisms
HL has just published my review of Oliver Jungen and Horst Lohnstein’s Geschichte der Grammatiktheorie. Sadly, I cannot recommend the book. Have a read.
Friday, 11 June 2010 {Ancient Grammar}. — No Comments »
Grammar’s Birth
Or: An Overview of the Beginnings of Linguistic Science in Greece.—The volume is part of the series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Here’s the publisher’s page. And here my preprint. (I haven’t yet received any soft- or hardcopy.)
Thursday, 1 April 2010 {Ancient Grammar, Ancient Philosophy, Apollonian Bibliography}. — No Comments »
U.S. Dissertation Express
Handy, handy—more than 2 million Ph.D. dissertations can now be purchased online as PDF files from ProQuest. I ordered myself D Kaplan’s Foundations of Intensional Logic (UCLA, 1964) and S Weems’s Greek Grammatical Papyri (U of Missouri, 1981)…
Wednesday, 24 March 2010 {Ancient Grammar}. — No Comments »
Priscian’s Pronoun
Just received offprints of my paper on Priscian’s de pronomine, so I think I can now put up their electronic counterpart. Here’s the abstract: Priscian’s Ars is generally considered the apogee of Latin grammar. Yet he himself claims to have followed in every respect the authority of Apollonius Dyscolus (Ars 13.24.7; al.). For a proper […]
Friday, 26 February 2010 {Ancient Grammar}. — No Comments »
Apollonius in Unicode
The Greek text of the current standard editions of Apollonius’ works is now available for download. I’ve also updated the Bibliography.
Thursday, 4 September 2008 {Ancient Grammar, Apollonian Bibliography}. — 1 Comment »
A Bibliography on Paris. Gr. 2548
Parisinus graecus 2548, a parchment of the early tenth or ninth century, is one of the most eminent manuscripts in ancient grammar—it is our best witness for Apollonius’ Syntax, and our sole witness for his treatises on pronouns, adverbs, and connectives. Somewhat surprisingly, in the last hundred years Apollonian scholars have done virtually no work […]
Wednesday, 6 August 2008 {Ancient Grammar, Apollonian Manuscripts}. — No Comments »
Kóμανoc
CQ has just published my paper on Κόμανοс. Here’s the abstract: Scholars spell and accentuate Comanus’ name in a variety of ways. I show, first, that direct witnesses leave no doubt that the correct spelling is K O M A N O C; and, secondly, that according to Herodian—the ancient authority on orthoepy—the word should be pronounced as proparoxytone. The latter […]
Saturday, 7 June 2008 {Ancient Grammar}. — No Comments »
Bekker 1817
Bekker’s epochal Apollonii Alexandrini de constructione orationis libri quatuor is now available for download.
Thursday, 1 November 2007 {Ancient Grammar, Apollonian Bibliography}. — No Comments »
Soutenance
Samedi prochain le 19 mai à 14h je soutiendrai ma thèse de doctorat intitulée ‘Apollonius Dyscolus: De pronomine pars generalis’. La soutenance aura lieu en salle A206 (Bastions, Aile Jura, 2e étage). Tous bienvenus! Directeur de thèse: M. Jonathan Barnes (Paris IV Sorbonne) Président du jury: M. Alain de Libera (Université de Genève) Jury: MM. […]
Monday, 14 May 2007 {Ancient Grammar, Vita}. — No Comments »
N° 1
I’ve just added a number of new items to The Complete Bibliography I — Bernhardy 1829, Egger 1854, Gräfenhan 1843-50, Hertz 1855-59, Lange 1852, Lehrs 1833, Lehrs 1848, Lersch 1838-1841, Lobeck 1837, Lobeck 1843, Schmidt 1832, Schoemann 1856-1858, Schoemann 1862, Séguier 1838, and Steinthal 1863.
Sunday, 13 May 2007 {Ancient Grammar, Apollonian Bibliography}. — No Comments »
