Compounding and Cogntive Processes in Word Formation with ὑδροποτέω and its relatives: Discussions of lexical semantics often make […]
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What reasons are there for a Greek speaker to use a reflexive pronoun with a verb rather than the middle voice?
The introductory volume on linguistics and exegesis to which I contributed two chapters is finally in print. Linguistics […]
It is also no accident that the types of meanings expressed by γίνομαι and εἰμί, one with middle morphology and the other with active morphology correspond effectively one-to-one with the general preferences for other non-linking and low frequency verbs.
Long time readers know that the authors are big fans of Paul Kroeger’s introductory textbooks to grammar and […]
Two quote from Rulh (1989) On monosemy…
Porter, Stanley. 2015. Linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. This review is […]
Paul’s Triumph: Reassessing 2 Corinthians 2:14 in Its Literary and Historical Context by Christoph Heilig. Don’t let the […]
Sometimes looking at how a give noun is used to produce other words in a fascinating exercise. These […]
When we talk about prepositional meaning, we have focused on the usage of prepositions in constructional contexts. We have not talked about ἀπό or ἐκ meaning CAUSE, for example, but rather ἀπό and ἐκ being used in a CAUSE expressions. This is an important distinction.
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