BOOKS - Postclassical Greek Prepositions and Conceptual Metapho
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Postclassical Greek Prepositions and Conceptual Metapho
Author: Ross
Year: 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 23 MB
Language: English
Year: 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 23 MB
Language: English
Traditional semantic description of Ancient Greek prepositions has struggled to synthesize the varied and seemingly arbitrary uses into something other than a disparate sometimes overlapping list of senses The Cognitive Linguistic approach of prototype theory holds that the meanings of a preposition are better explained as a semantic network of related senses that radially extend from a primary spatial sense These radial extensions arise from contextual factors that affect the metaphorical representation of the spatial scene that is profiled Building upon the Cognitive Linguistic descriptions of Bortone 2009 and Luraghi 2009 linguists biblical scholars and Greek lexicographers apply these developments to offer more in depth descriptions of select postclassical Greek prepositions and consider the exegetical and lexicographical implications of these findings This volume will be of interest to those studying or researching the Greek of the New Testament seeking more linguistically informed description of prepositional semantics particularly with a focus on the exegetical implications of choice among seemingly similar prepositions in Greek and the challenges of potentially mismatched translation into English