This picture is relevant. We promise. Have you ever stopped to consider how we use prepositions in language? […]
Category Archive: Syntax
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.
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:
The complex network of SPG constructions, from our SBL 2023 presentation (YouTube), has a number of organizing properties. […]
Prepositional phrases are one of the larger understudied and ignored elements of traditional biblical language grammar education. In […]
This year saw an enormous amount of overlap across the various language-oriented sessions at SBL/AAR and Rachel and […]
For those in the know, there has been a small cult following behind Nicholas Bailey’s dissertation, Thetic Constructions […]
Editor’s note: I was asked to comment on Greek word order in a Facebook thread and the following […]
Somehow the schedule for 2023 has already filled up. I had several planned essays/articles/posts planned and partially started, […]
In my survey of recent books in Greek grammar from 2021, I realized that I was missing one. […]
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