[B-Greek] More on prepositions

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat Mar 27 13:13:37 EDT 2010


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> There's been a discussion on Classics-L of prepositions, in the course of
> which the following have been called attention to:
>
>  Silvia Luraghi, *On the meaning of prepositions and cases: the
> expression of semantic roles in ancient Greek*.
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=tULhyKKX9nsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Silvia+Luraghi,&source=bl&ots=NQb5BGEHLb&sig=3chjc_kPPIhReJZHKFFl3QG0oIA&hl=en&ei=MuatS4ijBsSqlAenz-HkAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=&f=false
>
> = http://tinyurl.com/y8nwrxw)
>
> " Luraghi derives the uses of the prepositions from an original spatial
> orientation (a basic proposition of cognitive linguistics), and goes a
> long way towards making sense of an inherently anarchic situation."
>
> Warning: Linguistics may endanger your mental health. ;-)
>
> And on a lighter note with respect to prepositions, see:
>
> http://comics.com/zoom/314013/
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>
>


What I see from it is a google book preview with the cover showing
Kazuko Matsumoto "Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation", but
inside it looks like the book you are actually trying to show.  A
mystery?

(The short URL to google book did not work. Here is a working one
http://preview.tinyurl.com/case-preposition)

Oun Kwon:

P.S. Help me a little regarding the comic strip: what is 'that'
referred to in the the last comment  (I am down with that).  A cold
she has?



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