This picture is relevant. We promise. Have you ever stopped to consider how we use prepositions in language? […]
Prepositions
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:
There are plenty of abstract uses of the preposition περί—the most comment is TOPIC with verbs of thought and communication. But with many other non-communication situations, the preposition περί often functions to express category structures. It’s spatial sense “Location Around” still provides the motivating image schema (CENTER-PERIPHERY), but reconstrued metaphorically as a point in conceptual space that affects actions or circumstances in its proximity around it.
The silence on this website over the past year has primarily been the result of a writing and […]
The complex network of SPG constructions, from our SBL 2023 presentation (YouTube), has a number of organizing properties. […]
Previously, we published on YouTube the first part of our SBL 2023 presentation on Greek prepositional phrase constructions […]
This year saw an enormous amount of overlap across the various language-oriented sessions at SBL/AAR and Rachel and […]
Today Rachel and I received word from Faithlife/Logos Bible Software that our book on the grammar and semantics […]
Rachel Aubrey gave an excellent paper on ὑπέρ at SBL Denver 2022 (Slides and Notes available here: Exploring […]
For students and scholars of the biblical languages, preposition analysis tends to reinforce an idea: “Prepositions are little […]
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