Christian Locatell (PhD, Ancient Languages, Stellenbosch University) is a postdoctoral fellow working at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and ancient languages, especially Ancient Hebrew and other Northwest Semitic languages. His current work focuses on the way that adverbial conjunctions developed in ancient northwest Semitic (i.e. what did they develop from, what did they develop into, and how did they acquire new meanings and functions). Other interests include verbal systems, information structure and discourse analysis, grammaticalization theory, cognitive linguistics, neural theories of language, translation, hermeneutics, archaeology, theology, and anything that can help better understand ancient texts and their worlds.