Meaning is hard. Unfortunately, I’m not going to make any easier here.
Cognitive Linguistics
Compounds are complicated. They are formally complex, involving wide variation in their morphological/lexical formation. These formal complexities introduce their own series of semantic challenges.
Pro-tips for surviving without alcohol in a barren land from Cyrus the Great.
Herein, we come to the end of our discussion of the semantics of σκύβαλον and how it relates to English taboo words.
What to do when a word seems to mean completely different things?
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We have uploaded our slides from the Tyndale House Greek Prepositions Workshop to Academia.edu. They’re available below:
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.
Koine-Greek 