This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In Nathan's second prophetic speech (2 Sam. 7:8-16), at first the flow of narrative discourse is carried on by the sequence of the verbal ...

Michiko Kaneyasu received her Ph.D. in Japanese linguistics in 2012 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research interests include formulaic language, discourse and grammar, corpus ...

The very first time that I was ever “appreciated” in the elliptical idiom or grammar of Nigerian christian religiosity, it was with a bag of rice. The “appreciator” was a pastor, a man of the cloth.