This picture is relevant. We promise. Have you ever stopped to consider how we use prepositions in language? […]
Category Archive: Greek
Over the past year, I’ve been off-and-on reading Julia Falk’s Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from […]
We, Rachel and Michael Aubrey, are giving an academic forum at Dallas International University on Thursday, July 31⋅12:30 […]
Because I aim to win friends and influence people, I have just published a completely uncontroversial article on […]
Dallas International University (DIU) has announced their new masters degree program that combines the biblical languages and linguistics in one place: MA in Biblical Languages and Linguistics.
When we talk about the semantics of prepositional phrases, we are talking about a specific kind of conventionalized pattern. Conventional patterns are arbitrary in the sense that they are not predictable from one language to another. But in another way, they are nevertheless motivated (Sweetser 1990). There is a reason they occur as they do. Basic cognitive processes influence how different prepositions extend from spatial meanings to more abstract ones.
Jonathan Robie contacted me this morning to let me know that yesterday Carl Conrad passed away. There won’t […]
“It is no exaggeration to say that more has been learned about languages in the past twenty-five years […]
For anyone interested in linguistics and the Septuagint (and even a bit of Neo-Aramaic), this article was just […]
Last year, we shared our SBL paper from the Cognitive Linguistics session, “Constructions and the Source-Path-Goal Schema”. ventually, we realized that it was more practical to just upload the video as a whole. We only realized that we never shared the full video until today when a friend expressed appreciation to us for our paper. So without further ado, Constructions and the Source—Path—Goal Schema in its totality:
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