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Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew
Drawing on various modern linguistic models, including cognitive linguistics, frame semantics, and construction grammar, this book presents a new, integrated approach to lexical semantic analysis of biblical Hebrew, applying it in a detailed study of words related to \"exploring.\".
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Aspect, communicative appeal, and temporal meaning in Biblical Hebrew verbal forms
This book provides a new explanation for what has long been a challenge for scholars of Biblical Hebrew: how to understand the expression of verbal tense and aspect.Working from a representative text corpus, combined with database queries of specific usages and surveys of examples discussed in the scholarly literature, Ulf Bergström gives a.
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The Semantics of Glory
In The Semantics of Glory, Marilyn Burton offers a new model for a cognitive semantic approach to ancient languages, and in particular Classical Hebrew, demonstrating this model through its application to the semantic domain of the term \"Glory\" in Classical Hebrew.
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Syntactic and semantic variation in copular sentences : insights from classical Hebrew
This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many languages, the system of Classical Hebrew copular sentences is quite complex, containing zero, pronominal, and verbal forms as well as eventive and inchoative semantics. Approaching this subject from the framework of Distributed Morphology provides an elegant and comprehensive explanation for both the syntactic and semantic variation in these sentences. This book also presents a theoretical model for analyzing copular sentences in other languages included related phenomena- such as pseudo-copulas. It is also a demonstration of what can be gained by applying modern linguistic analyses to dead languages. Citing and building off previous studies on this topic, this book will be of interest to those interested in the theoretical examination of copular and existential sentences and to those interested in Classical Hebrew more specifically.
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The Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew
In The Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew, Sonja Noll explores the meanings of the many words that refer to being silent in biblical Hebrew and examines how they have been interpreted in the early versions, modern translations, and dictionaries.
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On Lips and Tongues in Ancient Hebrew
This article traces the semantic development of the words śāp̄ah 'lip' and lāšon 'tongue' through Biblical, Late Biblical, Qumran, and Mishnaic Hebrew. Two semantic changes occupy the focus of this analysis: First, by the time of Mishnaic Hebrew, śāp̄ah had lost its meanings related to the lip's association with talking, so that it should not be translated 'speech' in ambiguous contexts. Second, the semantic widening of lāšon to include the meaning 'speech' began to take place in Biblical Hebrew in the context of words from the realm of deceit.
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Reframing Biblical Studies
Until recently, biblical studies and studies of the written and
material culture of the ancient Near East have been fragmented,
governed by experts who are confined within their individual
disciplines' methodological frameworks and patterns of thinking.
The consequence has been that, at present, concepts and the
terminology for examining the interaction of textual and
historical complexes are lacking.
However, we can learn from the cognitive sciences. Until the end
of the 1980s, neurophysiologists, psychologists, pediatricians, and
linguists worked in complete isolation from one another on various
aspects of the human brain. Then, beginning in the 1990s, one group
began to focus on processes in the brain, thereby requiring that
cell biologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists,
linguists, and other relevant scientists collaborate with each
other. Their investigation revealed that the brain integrates all
kinds of information; if this were not the case, we would not be
able to catch even a glimpse of the brain's processing
activity.
By analogy, van Wolde's proposal for biblical scholarship is to
extend its examination of single elements by studying the
integrative structures that emerge out of the interconnectivity of
the parts. This analysis is based on detailed studies of specific
relationships among data of diverse origins, using language as the
essential device that links and permits expression. This method can
be called a cognitive relational approach .
Van Wolde bases her work on cognitive concepts developed by
Ronald Langacker. With these concepts, biblical scholars will be
able to study emergent cognitive structures that issue from
biblical words and texts in interaction with historical complexes.
Van Wolde presents a method of analysis that biblical scholars can
follow to investigate interactions among words and texts in the
Hebrew Bible, material and nonmaterial culture, and comparative
textual and historical contexts. In a significant portion of the
book, she then exemplifies this method of analysis by applying it
to controversial concepts and passages in the Hebrew Bible (the
crescent moon; the in-law family; the city gate; differentiation
and separation; Genesis 1, 34; Leviticus 18, 20; Numbers 5, 35;
Deuteronomy 21; and Ezekiel 18, 22, 33).
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The Lexical Field of the Substantives of \Gift\ in Ancient Hebrew
This book provides an exhaustive analysis of the semantic domain of 'gift' in Ancient Hebrew. The investigation focuses on the single lexemes and provides an overall picture of the developments of the lexical field across the linguistic layers of Ancient Hebrew.
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The emergence of semantics in four linguistic traditions : Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic
The aim of this study is a comparative analysis of the role of semantics in the linguistic theory of four grammatical traditions, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. If one compares the organization of linguistic theory in various grammatical traditions, it soon turns out that there are marked differences in the way they define the place of 'semantics' within the theory. In some traditions, semantics is formally excluded from linguistic theory, and linguists do not express any opinion as to the relationship between syntactic and semantic analysis. In other traditions, the whole basis of linguistic theory is semantically orientated, and syntactic features are always analysed as correlates of a semantic structure. However, even in those traditions, in which semantics falls explicitly or implicitly outside the scope of linguistics, there may be factors forcing linguists to occupy themselves with the semantic dimension of language. One important factor seems to be the presence of a corpus of revealed/sacred texts: the necessity to formulate hermeneutic rules for the interpretation of this corpus brings semantics in through the back door.
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