Author: Jan Fokkelman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900435879X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Volume III: The Remaining 65 Psalms Each of the 85 Psalms (83 poems) discussed in the previous volume of Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible has the highly remarkable feature of scoring an exact integer as the average number of syllables per colon; sometimes seven or nine, more often eight, which may be called the central normative figure of Biblical poetry. This can only mean that the classical poets did count their syllables. Moreover, they succeeded in bringing about a creative merger between various forms of numerical perfection and the structure of their songs, which is generally underpinned by the correct articulation in strophes and stanzas. The breakthrough of this discovery became possible on the basis of (a) a refined recipe for establishing the original (i.e. pre-Masoretic) syllable structure of the ancient Hebrew, and (b) a definition of the colon. In those poems in which the correct colometry is difficult to delimit, it can be established only by a three-pronged approach tackling syntax, prosody and semantics and able to combine them. In this third volume, the 65 remaining Psalms are subject of structural analysis, and once more are covered by full syllable counts. Although these songs do not seek to apply the exact integers, they display the other forms of numerical perfection on more than one textual level, so that they embody the same poetics. This will be no different in volume IV, which deals with Job 15-42 and will be published as the final volume in the Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible project.
Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible
Author: Jan Fokkelman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900435879X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Volume III: The Remaining 65 Psalms Each of the 85 Psalms (83 poems) discussed in the previous volume of Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible has the highly remarkable feature of scoring an exact integer as the average number of syllables per colon; sometimes seven or nine, more often eight, which may be called the central normative figure of Biblical poetry. This can only mean that the classical poets did count their syllables. Moreover, they succeeded in bringing about a creative merger between various forms of numerical perfection and the structure of their songs, which is generally underpinned by the correct articulation in strophes and stanzas. The breakthrough of this discovery became possible on the basis of (a) a refined recipe for establishing the original (i.e. pre-Masoretic) syllable structure of the ancient Hebrew, and (b) a definition of the colon. In those poems in which the correct colometry is difficult to delimit, it can be established only by a three-pronged approach tackling syntax, prosody and semantics and able to combine them. In this third volume, the 65 remaining Psalms are subject of structural analysis, and once more are covered by full syllable counts. Although these songs do not seek to apply the exact integers, they display the other forms of numerical perfection on more than one textual level, so that they embody the same poetics. This will be no different in volume IV, which deals with Job 15-42 and will be published as the final volume in the Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible project.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900435879X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Volume III: The Remaining 65 Psalms Each of the 85 Psalms (83 poems) discussed in the previous volume of Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible has the highly remarkable feature of scoring an exact integer as the average number of syllables per colon; sometimes seven or nine, more often eight, which may be called the central normative figure of Biblical poetry. This can only mean that the classical poets did count their syllables. Moreover, they succeeded in bringing about a creative merger between various forms of numerical perfection and the structure of their songs, which is generally underpinned by the correct articulation in strophes and stanzas. The breakthrough of this discovery became possible on the basis of (a) a refined recipe for establishing the original (i.e. pre-Masoretic) syllable structure of the ancient Hebrew, and (b) a definition of the colon. In those poems in which the correct colometry is difficult to delimit, it can be established only by a three-pronged approach tackling syntax, prosody and semantics and able to combine them. In this third volume, the 65 remaining Psalms are subject of structural analysis, and once more are covered by full syllable counts. Although these songs do not seek to apply the exact integers, they display the other forms of numerical perfection on more than one textual level, so that they embody the same poetics. This will be no different in volume IV, which deals with Job 15-42 and will be published as the final volume in the Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible project.
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Author: Robert Bartley Taylor
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Ekagi-Dutch-English-Indonesian Dictionary
Author: J. Steltenpool
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004286861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004286861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
VKI
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indiƫ
Author:
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Category : Netherlands Antilles
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Netherlands Antilles
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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A Geographic Dictionary of Rhode Island
Author: Henry Gannett
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism
Author: Elizabeth Lanza
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199265060
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book addresses the issue of language contact in the context of child language acquisition. Elizabeth Lanza examines in detail the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children in families living in Norway in which the mother is American and the father Norwegian. She connects psycholinguistic arguments with sociolinguistic evidence, adding a much-needed dimension of real language-use in context to the psycholinguistic studies which have dominated the field. She draws upon evidence from other studies to support her claims concerning language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the situation, interlocutor, and the communicative demands of the context. She also addresses the question of whether or not the language mixing of infant bilingualism is conceptually different from the codeswitching of older bilinguals, thus helping to bridge the gap between these two fields of study.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199265060
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This book addresses the issue of language contact in the context of child language acquisition. Elizabeth Lanza examines in detail the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children in families living in Norway in which the mother is American and the father Norwegian. She connects psycholinguistic arguments with sociolinguistic evidence, adding a much-needed dimension of real language-use in context to the psycholinguistic studies which have dominated the field. She draws upon evidence from other studies to support her claims concerning language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the situation, interlocutor, and the communicative demands of the context. She also addresses the question of whether or not the language mixing of infant bilingualism is conceptually different from the codeswitching of older bilinguals, thus helping to bridge the gap between these two fields of study.
An English-Herero Dictionary
Author: F. W. Kolbe
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey
A Bibliography of North American Paleontology, 1888-1892
Author: Charles Rollin Keyes
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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