Hi.
Just so everyone knows, Rijksbaron’s The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek: An Introduction, 3rd edition, is available for pre-order on Amazon. The price—$13.60—is very reasonable.
I also pre-ordered Eleanor Dickey’s Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises: From Their Beginnings… I can’t wait for this one to arrive!
Wow, thanks, I want both of those.
Ooh. A very desirable book I’ve been trying to get my own copy of for years. Thanks for the notice.
Talking of wanting, it was so difficult tracking down Helma Dik’s Word Order in Ancient Greek and Rijksbaron’s (editor) New Approaches to Greek Particles. The first one was bought from a Dutch bookseller and the second one from a British. Both new… and boy did I pay. 
I just love learning about new books (well the Rijksbaron book is sort of new.) This is one of the reasons why I still peep around here. Unfortunately, the book that I was most anticipating for 2007 is now pushed to 2010… 
Cambridge’s Greek lexicon: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2006100203
Well, the price went up, sort of. It doesn’t have the discounted price on Amazon anymore. Rijksbaron’s book was supposed to be published in April 15 according to the page I saved and now Amazon says May 15. So far, it’s still not available… Did anyone recieve their book yet? How does this compare to Goodwin’s book? Also, I’ve read in another thread that this book has some good information on particles as well… I’m kind of leary of modern books because of their theoretical impractical transformational mumbo jumbo. I’m still waiting for the paperback edition of Faarland’s “Sytnax of Old Norse”. Although it has some air of practicality, there seems to be no other choice (for English readers).
Mine hasn’t yet either. This is like waiting for the classical Greek translation of the first Harry Potter book.
How does this compare to Goodwin’s book?
It’s a lot shorter!
I’m kind of leary of modern books because of their theoretical impractical transformational mumbo jumbo.
Rijksbaron and his buddies follow the theoretical approach of Functional Grammar (Simon Dik variety), who view language more as a means of communication than as a means of computation. There is no black magic.
Rijksbaron and his buddies follow the theoretical approach of Functional Grammar (Simon Dik variety), who view language more as a means of communication than as a means of computation. There is no black magic.
Yay.
Wikipedia:
“functional grammar differs significantly from other linguistic theories which stress purely formal approaches to grammar, for instance Chomskyan generative grammar.”
However, I can’t find any introductory material on Dik’s Functional Grammar. Many of his books are expensive. I guess I must invade university grounds… 
Without it, it’s probably going to be hard to digest this book, the Dutch work on Particles, and Helma’s book. Boo. (Not that I will be obtaining those other books any time soon.)
1%homeless, have you taken a look at http://home.hum.uva.nl/fg/index.html? I’m not sure anything there is introductory, but they do have an outline of their ideas so that might be helpful.
Yeah, it is the same site as www.functionalgrammar.com.
Helma Dik’s book seems to have been written with the idea that more classicists than linguists will be reading it. She explains the theoretical framework along the way.
This morning I had email from Amazon saying the book is on its way to me. The web page shows it in stock.
Funny that the print date is now June 15th. The price is still $20… oh well.