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POSTCLASSICAL GREEK PREPOSITIONS AND CONCEPTUAL...

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.

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