Language and interpretation in the Syriac text of Ben Sira : : a comparative linguistic and literary study / / by W. Th. van Peursen.

• Author: Peursen, W. Th. van.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs of the Peshiṭta Institute, Leiden. Studies in the Syriac versions of the Bible and their cultural contexts ; v. 16; Monographs of the Peshitta Institute 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (491 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Materials /; Chapter One. The Text /; Chapter Two. The Place Of The Syriac Translanon In The Textual History Of Sirach /; Chapter Three. The Syriac Sirach As A Translanon /; Chapter Four. Tendencies In The Syriac Sirach Not Shared By The ‘Expanded Text’ /; Chapter Five. Intertextual Analysis /; Chapter Six. The Religious Profile Of The Syriac Sirach /; Chapter Seven. The Calap Model Of Textual Analysis /; Chapter Eight. The Procedure Of The Calap Analysis /; Chapter Nine. Preliminary Remarks On Phrase Structure /; Chapter Ten. Phrases With One Extension /; Chapter Eleven. Phrases With Two Extensions /; Chapter Twelve. Phrases With More Than Two Extensions And Other Complex Phrase Structures /; Chapter Thirteen. Discontinuous Phrases /; Chapter Fourteen. Independent Use Of XXX /; Chapter Fifteen. Towards A Maximum Matrix Of Phrases /; Chapter Sixteen. Preliminary Remarks On Clause Structure /; Chapter Seventeen. Bipartite Nominal Clauses /; Chapter Eighteen. Tripartite Nominal Clauses /; Chapter Nineteen. Quadripartite Nominal Clauses /; Chapter Twenty. Participials /; Chapter Twenty-One. Extraposition And Pronominal Agreement /; Chapter Twenty-Two. Existential Clauses /; Chapter Twenty-Three. Clauses Containing The Verb XXX /; Chapter Twenty-Four. Cleft Sentences /; Chapter Twenty-Five. Functions Of The Pronoun /; Chapter Twenty-Six. Preliminary Remarks On Clause Hierarchy /; Chapter Twenty-Seven. Clause Hierarchy In The Praise Of The Fathers /; Chapter Twenty-Eight. Conclusions /; Bibliography /; Index Of Passages /; Index Of Authors /; Bible. Ecclesiasticus. Selections. Syriac.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-455) and indexes.
• ISBN: 128193710X; 9786611937102; 9047423615
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by W. Th. van Peursen.

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.