A Contribution to Greek Grammar and Etymology

A Categorial Grammar for Greek

GF Modern Greek Resource Grammar

The paper describes the Modern Greek (MG) Grammar, implemented in Grammatical Framework (GF) as part of the Grammatical Framework Resource Grammar Library (RGL). GF is a special-purpose language for multilingual grammar applications. The RGL is a reusable library for dealing with the morphology and syntax of a growing number of natural languages. It is based on the use of an abstract syntax, wh...

Analgesia and anesthesia: etymology and literary history of related Greek words.

G reek is a particularly cultivated language and has been used to express and refine philosophical and scientific concepts for more than 30 centuries. It is not by chance that international scientific language has formed, and continues to form, many of its terms by borrowing Greek roots, words, or word parts (1). The ancient Greeks were preoccupied with what we now call the “theory of language....

Etymology, history, and artifacts

Elliptic really does have a connection with literal geometric ellipses, removed by a few steps. Integrals expressing arc length of ellipses are less elementary than integrals for inverse trigonometric functions, and were named elliptic because of this. Abel and Jacobi discovered in 1827 that the inverse functions are doubly periodic (explained below). This chain of events caused these functions...

Medical Etymology