Ezra la Roi‘s work on various domains of modality (conditionals, insubordination, counterfactuals, and more) in Ancient Greek has […]
Ancient Greek
This picture is relevant. We promise. Have you ever stopped to consider how we use prepositions in language? […]
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 […]
I recently realized that I never uploaded the pdf from my chapter, “Greek Prohibitions,” in The Greek Verb Revisited anywhere online. My conference slides have been available online for quite some time: Greek Prohibitions Conference Slides, but not the final chapter. That situation has now been rectified and I’ve included the book’s front matter for easier citations, should anyone so choose to do so.
Prepositional phrases are one of the larger understudied and ignored elements of traditional biblical language grammar education. In […]
I was saddened to learn last week of the passing of Albert Rijksbaron. He was 80 years old. […]
Herein, we come to the end of our discussion of the semantics of σκύβαλον and how it relates to English taboo words.
The following is an essay encompassing the analysis and data that we will be presenting in our paper on ἐκ and ἀπό at the Greek Prepositions Workshop at Tyndale house in Cambridge this coming Friday, June 30th. It is a compilation of the short pieces that we have posted over the past week.
We find a strong “experiential correlation” (Tyler and Evans 2003, 32) between actions and the consequences that result from those actions (i.e. cause and effect): Causes are understood to precede their consequences. If one event immediately precedes another, it is only natural to conceive of the former as the cause and the latter as the effect.
Koine-Greek 