Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]
Category Archive: Cognitive Linguistics
Editor’s note: this article was originally published on the blog Old School Script. We have taken over its […]
Primary and secondary grammar classes teach that a transitive clause is a clause with an object: Rachel shattered […]
My audience didn’t do a particularly good job participating in the beginning quiz. Next time I’ll need to find some additional incentives.
Continuing on with my summary of the papers presented at SEBTS’s Linguistics and New Testament Greek Conference, April […]
Andrew Keenan continues his investigations… In this section, I want to cover some of the broadest components of […]
Finding Security in a Use Based Grammar and its Applications for Lexical Analysis
Can you imagine how much more complicated it could have been for Elmer Fudd to figure out if its rabbit season or duck season?
There are bits to be salvaged from Ruhl (1989), perhaps, but it might be easier to start elsewhere entirely.
I fully acknowledge there is certainly an appeal for monosemy as a theoretical construct. The ability to schematize all usages or senses within a single abstract sense does indeed simplified and elegant semantic theory. Such a theory is an attractive prospect for all linguists.
