Exegetical Payoff in Grammatical Research

Here’s a question for you. It’s one that I’ve been pondering for some time. Should placing a priority on exegetical payoff in linguistic & grammatical research be viewed as a strength or a weakness? Thoughts, anyone? It seems to me that there is a rather hefty group of NT scholars who would hold that linguistic [...]

Clarifying Allan & Kemmer on Middle Voice: Cognitive Linguistics

To understand how Kemmer and Allan deal with the question of polysemy, we need to move to a more theoretical level. We need to discuss semantics: how languages mean, for one. And then also, how humans learn and internalize usages and meanings. What is the process by which we learn new words, constructions, & grammatical [...]