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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

Just finished a bottle. Currently living near Chicago, so it's abundant in stores.

Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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/#

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 8d

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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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 8d

It should not have to be said, but actually thanks @johnbasil.bsky.social for including signed languages in this article!

John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 9d

Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features.
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community l....

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 20d

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

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20d

Seriously, though. Absolute horror show here. And yet another reminder — as if they were still needed — that capitulating gets you nothing beyond letting Trump know you’re willing to capitulate.

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · 29d

For sure. Falk notes about Claflin:

"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])."

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Sep 8

I really love this book.

Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Sep 8

Edith Claflin's work on voice and aspect in Greek and Latin should have been part of the linguistics foundation we all have been building on, yet you rarely find her cited.
#linguistics #biblicalgreek

Edith Claflin, the Greek linguist you’ve never heard of

Over the past year, I’ve been off-and-on reading Julia Falk’s Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. It’s a superb b…

koine-greek.com

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Sep 8

Edith Claflin's work on voice and aspect in Greek and Latin should have been part of the linguistics foundation we all have been building on, yet you rarely find her cited.
#linguistics #biblicalgreek

Edith Claflin, the Greek linguist you’ve never heard of

Over the past year, I’ve been off-and-on reading Julia Falk’s Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. It’s a superb b…

koine-greek.com

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'll DM you this afternoon.

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Sep 3

Separately: do you have any idea about what plans there are for things like this data set in the Aquifer and how they'll relate to Platform.Bible and Paratext 10 Studio...?

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Sep 3

Rick, I was looking at the github package just now and it would probably be good if mine and Rachel's names were downplayed. The vast majority of the work was Steve Nicolle, we just helped with a few things at the very end before passing the data to you.

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Aug 27

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"Celery: When you have that sudden urge to bite into water with hair in it"

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fighting for working families with Sen. Warren

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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