Reflections on Lexicography

Explorations in Ancient Syriac, Hebrew, and Greek Sources

Richard A. Taylor, Craig E. Morrison

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781463235581
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project. These essays offer a probing analysis of selected lexical tools and methods for working with ancient Syriac, Hebrew, and Greek sources, as well as offering reflections on methodological concerns for lexicographical tools of the future.

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME
• SERIES PREFACE
• LOOKING FOR WHAT’S NOT THERE
• INTRODUCTION
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• REFLECTIONS ON SYRIAC LEXICOGRAPHY
• REFLECTIONS ON TWO ARTICLES BY FREDERICK W. DANKER: BACKGROUND AND APPRECIATION
• LEXICAL PROBLEMS: SYNONYMY AND METONYMY AND RELATED ISSUES
• THE HEBREW AND THE SYRIAC COPULA IN KINGS
• LEXEMES WITH HIGH RISK OF INFECTION: METHODOLOGY FOR EXAMINING LOWFREQUENCY LEXEMES
• REMARKS ON THE FUTURE OF A SYRIAC LEXICON BASED UPON THE CORPUS OF PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS
• THE INCLUSION OF ENCYCLOPEDIC INFORMATION IN SYRIAC LEXICAL ENTRIES
• A USER’S VIEW OF MICHAEL SOKOLOFF, ED., A SYRIAC LEXICON: A TRANSLATION FROM THE LATIN: CORRECTION, EXPANSION, AND UPDATE OF C. BROCKELMANN’S LEXICON SYRIACUM (2009)
• BROCKELMANN IN ENGLISH GUISE
• REFLECTIONS ON HEBREW LEXICOGRAPHY
• WHERE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS INTERSECT: THE STORY OF
• HEBREW THOUGHT AND GREEK THOUGHT IN THE SEPTUAGINT: FIFTY YEARS AFTER BARR’S SEMANTICS
• IS ‘RIGHTEOUSNESS’ A RELATIONAL CONCEPT IN THE HEBREW BIBLE?
• TAKE ONE HEBREW LEXICON, ADD FRESH THEOLOGY, AND MIX WELL: THE IMPACT OF THEOLOGY ON HEBREW-ENGLISH LEXICONS
• A TALE OF TWO SITTERS AND A CRAZY BLUE JAY
• HOW MY (LEXICOGRAPHICAL) MIND HAS CHANGED, OR ELSE REMAINED THE SAME
• REFLECTIONS ON GREEK LEXICOGRAPHY
• A LINGUISTIC-CULTURAL APPROACH TO ALLEGED PAULINE AND LUKAN CHRISTOLOGICAL DISPARITY
• CONTEXTUAL FACTORS IN THE GREEK-SPANISH DICTIONARY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT (DGENT)
• THE GREEK-SPANISH DICTIONARY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT (DGENT): MEANING AND TRANSLATION OF THE LEXEMES; SOME PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
• THE GENITIVE ABSOLUTE IN DISCOURSE: MORE THAN A CHANGE OF SUBJECT
• NOW AND THEN: CLARIFYING THE ROLE OF TEMPORAL ADVERBS AS DISCOURSE MARKERS
• ‘THEREFORE’ OR ‘WHEREFORE’: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• INDEX