Author : Willem Th. van Peursen
Release : 2007-12-31
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 615/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira by : Willem Th. van Peursen
Download or read book Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira written by Willem Th. van Peursen. This book was released on 2007-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of an innovative linguistic study of the Syriac translation of Ben Sira. It contains both a traditional philological analysis, incorporating matters of text-historical interest and translation technique, and also the results of a computational linguistic analysis of phrases, clauses and texts. It arrives at new linguistic insights, including a proposal for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix. The book also addresses the fundamentally different way in which a text is approached in a computer-assisted analysis compared with the way in which this is done in traditional philological approaches. It demonstrates how the computer-assisted analysis can fruitfully shed light on or supplement traditional philological research.