The Semantics of Glory: A Cognitive, Corpus-Based Approach to Hebrew Word Meaning

363 Pages·2017·1.952 MB·English

by  Marilyn Burton

TheSemanticsofGlory
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The Semantics of Glory
ACognitive,Corpus-BasedApproachtoHebrew
WordMeaning
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MarilynE.Burton
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
ListofIllustrations xii
ListofAbbreviations xiv
1 CognitiveSemantics 1
Introduction 1
Semantics 2
Structuralism 3
StructuralisminBiblicalStudies 4
ProblemsofStructuralism 5
ComponentialAnalysisofMeaning 6
Beyond‘Classical’Structuralism 9
CognitiveSemantics 11
1 PrototypeTheory 11
2 FrameTheory 13
3 ConceptualMetaphorTheory(cmt)andConceptual
Blending 15
CognitiveSemanticsinBiblicalStudies:ProgressandChallenges 17
1 PrototypeTheory:GerritvanSteenbergen 24
2 FrameTheory:ReinierdeBlois 26
3 ConceptualMetaphorTheory:DavidAaron 27
Methodology:KeyFeatures 30
1 Cognitive 30
2 Relational 31
3 Decompositional 32
4 Exhaustive 33
5 Corpus-Based 33
ChallengesoftheClassicalHebrewCorpus 34
1 DiachronicVariation 34
2 AlternativeVersionsandTextualDamage 39
3 TheFragmentaryNatureoftheCorpus 40
TheNextSteps 41
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2 DefiningtheDomain:ParallelismandPatternsofLanguage
Association 42
WordPairs 42
Parallelism 44
PreliminaryIssues 50
1 ParallelTermsversusWordPairs 50
1.1 Definitions 50
1.2 RelativeWeightings 51
2 AsymmetricRelations 53
3 TextualIssues 54
3.1 ParallelMaterialandRefrains 54
3.2 4QBerakhot 55
Analysisofדובכ 56
PreliminaryLexicalIssues 61
תוקדצ/הקדצ/קדצ 61
תורובג/הרובג 62
הלודג/לדג 63
הלוע/לוע 63
הבוט/בוט/בוט 63
תראפת/הראפת 64
שדוק 64
םש 65
אלפ,ןומה,בר 66
שפנandםייח 66
Analysis:FirstRound 67
Excursus:הרובג,חכandזע 107
Summary:FirstRound 109
Analysis:SecondRound 109
Summary:SecondRound 115
Analysis:ThirdRound 115
Summary:ThirdRound 117
3 ExploringtheDomain 118
SemanticFeatures 118
Identity 119
Ascription 120
GivingandTaking 120
Verbs 120
CausalRelations 120
Reaction 121
contents ix
Associations 121
Metaphor 124
Idioms 127
Antonyms 128
Distribution 128
FrameAnalysis 128
דובכ 128
תראפת 175
רדה 187
דוה 199
זע 207
הלהת 219
חצנ 228
יבצ 230
ןואג 235
הואג 244
תואג 251
4 Interrelations 255
Identity 256
Ascription 258
GivingandTaking 263
Verbs 267
CausalRelations 270
Reaction 272
Associations 273
Metaphor 279
Antonyms 283
Idioms 285
Distribution 285
Conclusions 287
BriefOverviews 300
SomeDefinitionsandTranslational‘Equivalents’ 306
ComparisonofResultswithTraditionalScholarship 308
ClosingRemarks 310
Appendix:ExplanationoftheStatisticsGivenforLexicalFrequencyin
theDeadSeaScrolls 311
Bibliography 318
ExegeticalIndex 333
IndexofNamesandConcepts 346