Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira

A Comparative Linguistic and Literary Study

After subjecting the Syriac translation of Ben Sira to traditional philological analysis the author conducts computer-assisted linguistic studies of phrases, clauses and texts. He reaches particularly interesting proposals for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix.

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