Mike Aubrey

This morning a church elder made my wife cry and I just need to say somewhere how wrong that is.

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LIFE IS A DISCOUNT STORE WITH SALES THAT CAN OCCASIONALLY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF is my favorite conceptual metaphor. (www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...) #linguistics

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2023? Oof. That's brutal.

It's frustrating when you've submitted a book manuscript at the end of 2024 and it's still in limbo as you're coming to the end of 2025.

I was finally able to confirm with a friend at Logos that mine and Rachel's manuscript for the 2nd edition of Greek Prepositions in the New Testament was acquired by Baker from Lexham/Logos, but we're still waiting to hear from Baker about what's happening with it. #biblicalgreek

I was primarily remaking on the way AI research is prioritized when you arguably don't get the Chinese Room without Speech Act theory, since his conceptions of intentionality and consciousness come directly from Speech Act Theory. 2/2

Yeah, that's fair. But I think for most of us in linguistics & philosophy of language Austin and Searle's names just inherently go together as a pair. 1/2

I'm genuinely fascinated that nearly every post I've seen about John Searle's passing has reference the Chinese Room experiment as his big thing none of mentioned Speech Act Theory.
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Just finished a bottle. Currently living near Chicago, so it's abundant in stores.

We suggest that force dynamics represents the unexplored, but essential element by which the diversity of these two prepositions may be accounted for in a cognitively plausible manner.
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Prepositions ἐπί and κατά are commonly considered two of the more difficult prepositions to understand. They are used in a variety of contexts with English glosses that proliferate without apparent reason.
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At SBL this coming November, we examine how the human experience of forces, and efforts to counteract those forces structure the meaning of Greek prepositions in the physical realm and how force-dynamic patterns motivate usage in abstract domains.
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The rocks supply a counterforce to the force of the storm, a stabilizing force that opposes the sweep of the waves as they crash against the land. It is when these two opposing forces meet that the ship could become compromised.
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In Acts ‎(example 2), the force of the winds and water current compel the ship in one direction, but Paul and his compatriots know that a ship that is dashed against the rocks will splinter apart or at least end their journey quickly.
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Note that Saul ‎(example 1) is reliant on the force of gravity as he falls downward onto his sword. His sword provides a counterforce or opposing force that when pressed against via gravity will pierce through Saul’s body. The opposing force of one object against another results in Saul’s death.
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Their ship could have run aground along the rocks, so they dropped anchors from the stern to hold their location steady.
However, there is also a key force-dynamic aspect to each expression.
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There is a spatial component to the statements in ‎(1) and ‎(2). Saul is in a position over his sword and falls in the direction of the sword from above. Likewise in Acts, Paul and his fellow travelers were on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea when they were caught in a storm.
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φοβούμενοί τε μή που κατὰ τραχεῖς τόπους [LM] ἐκπέσωμεν ἐκ πρύμνης ῥίψαντες ἀγκύρας τέσσαρας.
Fearing that we might run aground against the rocks [LM], they dropped four anchors from the stern (Acts 27:29).
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Consider the following ex.'s, for ἐπί and κατά.
καὶ ἔλαβεν Σαοὺλ [TR] τὴν ῥομφαίαν καὶ ἐπέπεσεν ἐπʼ αὐτήν [LM].
Saul [TR] took his sword and fell on it [LM] (LXX 1 Chronicles 10:4).
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Maybe you're not cognizant of gravity, but as soon as you drop something you note its effects (Johnson 1987, 42). In semantics, force dynamics refers to the interaction of forces, counterforces, & causal relations. Let's talk about the force-dynamic aspects of Greek prepositions ἐπί and κατά. 2/#

Force is ubiquitous in everyday life. We act and are acted on by causal sequences that require the exertion of force. Typical force interactions shape our inferences about the world and how we communicate in language. 1/#
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It should not have to be said, but actually thanks @johnbasil.bsky.social for including signed languages in this article!

I'm bring a bottle of Malort to Toronto and we'll do shots together.

Whatever happens be sure to take care of yourself, Dan!

Turns out that consolidating media companies into handful a megacorporation might have been less than ideal.

"The approach and subject matter of her work did not change significantly over the two decades of her active post-doctoral research, focused on middle voice in Indo-European, but a growing awareness of the changing nature of American historical linguistics led her to update the listing of her specialized area in the LSA membership rolls from the original ‘Greek and Latin’ to ‘Indo-European comparative linguistics’ and finally to ‘Indo-European linguistics’ (LSA Bulletin 9.26[1936], 10.26[1937])."

For sure. Falk notes about Claflin: