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.
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The silence on this website over the past year has primarily been the result of a writing and […]
Eighteen years ago Christo van der Merwe et. al published a Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar. At the time it introduced some important areas of study that had not yet been covered in BH grammars, such as word order variation. Now, van der Merwe and Naudé are back with a substantially augmented second edition. Read on to learn more about this edition from Christo and what he’s up to next.
Rachel and I will be at in SBL this year. I wanted to highlight what we’re up to. […]
The prevailing method for teaching Greek grammar for New Testament students is built on a model that frames […]
Editor’s note: This interview originally appeared at Old School Script on February 23rd, 2015. Education: I received a BA […]
Out of the kindness of a friend, T. Muraoka’s A Syntax of Septuagint Greek (Amazon) arrived at my proverbial […]
Cristofaro, Sonia (2008). A constructionist approach to complementation: Evidence from Ancient Greek. Linguistics 46.3: 571–606. DOI: 10.1515/LING.2008.019 Cristofaro […]
I want to again thank everyone who contributed to the GoFundMe Campaign: Cambridge Greek Verb Conference. The response […]
That moment when you read in BDAG (and BAGD, too) that σκοτίζω’s middle form has the function of: […]
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