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The Old Testament in Greek, Volume I The Octateuch, Part IV Joshua, Judges and Ruth (Hardcover): Alan England Brooke, Norman... The Old Testament in Greek, Volume I The Octateuch, Part IV Joshua, Judges and Ruth (Hardcover)
Alan England Brooke, Norman McLean
R1,056 R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Save R151 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Of The Bible (Hardcover): Jeff A. Benner Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Of The Bible (Hardcover)
Jeff A. Benner 1
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

All previous Biblical Hebrew lexicons have provided a modern western definition and perspective to Hebrew roots and words. This prevents the reader of the Bible from seeing the ancient authors' original intent of the passages. This is the first Biblical Hebrew lexicon that defines each Hebrew word within its original Ancient Hebrew cultural meaning.

One of the major differences between the Modern Western mind and the Ancient Hebrew's is that their mind related all words and their meanings to a concrete concept. For instance, the Hebrew word "chai" is normally translated as "life", a western abstract meaning, but the original Hebrew concrete meaning of this word is the "stomach". In the Ancient Hebrew mind, a full stomach is a sign of a full "life". The Hebrew language is a root system oriented language and the lexicon is divided into sections reflecting this root system. Each word of the Hebrew Bible is grouped within its roots and is defined according to its original ancient cultural meaning.

Also included in each word entry are its alternative spellings, King James translations of the word and Strong's number.;Indexes are included to assist with finding a word within the lexicon according to its spelling, definition, King James translation or Strong's number.

Lexicon Features:

  • An introduction to the Ancient Hebrew alphabet, language and thought.
  • The history of the Hebrew script from ancient to modern times.
  • Reconstruction of the original Hebrew alphabet and root system of roots and words.
  • Alphabetical ordering of Parent, Child and Adopted Roots with .each root listing the Hebrew nouns and verbs derived from the root.
  • Ancient Hebrew, Modern Hebrew&nd English transliteration of roots and words. The action, concrete and abstract meaning of each Hebrew root.
  • Ancient Hebrew Cultural definition of Hebrew roots and words.
  • Root origins of Hebrew words and their relationship to other roots and words.
  • Frequency each word is used in the Hebrew Bible.
  • Listing of foreign words found in the Hebrew Bible.
  • Index to English translations of Hebrew words, King James Translations of Hebrew words, Strong's numbers and alternate Hebrew spellings of Hebrew words.
Quantity and Accent in the Pronunciation of Latin (Hardcover): F. W. (Frederic William) Westaway Quantity and Accent in the Pronunciation of Latin (Hardcover)
F. W. (Frederic William) Westaway
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A critical inquiry into the Scottish language with the view of illustrating the rise and progress of civilisation in Scotland... A critical inquiry into the Scottish language with the view of illustrating the rise and progress of civilisation in Scotland (Hardcover)
Francisque Michel
R1,255 Discovery Miles 12 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vocabulary of High School Latin, Being the Vocabulary of - Caesar's Gallic War, Books I-V; Cicero Against Cataline, on... The Vocabulary of High School Latin, Being the Vocabulary of - Caesar's Gallic War, Books I-V; Cicero Against Cataline, on Pompey's Command, for the Poet Archias; Vergil's AEneid, Books I-VI; (Hardcover)
Gonzalez 1863-1942 Lodge
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Reconstructing Syntax (Hardcover): Johanna Barddal, Spike Gildea, Eugenio Lujan Reconstructing Syntax (Hardcover)
Johanna Barddal, Spike Gildea, Eugenio Lujan
R4,127 Discovery Miles 41 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot's (2002: 625) conclusion: "[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we'll eat the pudding." This volume provides methods for the identification of i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax.

The Book; Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (Hardcover): Henri 1849-1906 Bouchot, E C... The Book; Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (Hardcover)
Henri 1849-1906 Bouchot, E C (Edward Clements) 1838?- Bigmore; H. Grevel
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Old Testament in Greek, Volume I The Octateuch, Part II Exodus and Leviticus (Hardcover): Alan England Brooke, Norman McLean The Old Testament in Greek, Volume I The Octateuch, Part II Exodus and Leviticus (Hardcover)
Alan England Brooke, Norman McLean
R1,105 R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Save R162 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Shorter Latin Primer ... (Hardcover): Benjamin Hall 1804-1889 Kennedy The Shorter Latin Primer ... (Hardcover)
Benjamin Hall 1804-1889 Kennedy
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Phrygian Language (Hardcover): Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach The Phrygian Language (Hardcover)
Bartomeu Obrador-Cursach
R7,639 Discovery Miles 76 390 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book provides an updated view of our knowledge about Phrygian, an Indo-European language attested to have been spoken in Anatolia between the 8th century BC and the Roman Imperial period. Although a linguistic and epigraphic approach is the core of the book, it covers all major topics of research on Phrygian: the historical and archaeological contexts in which the Phrygian texts were found, a comprehensive grammar with diachronic and comparative remarks, an overview of the linguistic contacts attested for Phrygian, a discussion about its position within the Indo-European language family, a complete lexicon and index of the Phrygian inscriptions, a study of the Phrygian glosses and a complete, critical catalogue of the Phrygian inscriptions with new readings and interpretations.

The Old Testament in Greek, Volume I The Octateuch, Part I Genesis (Hardcover): Alan England Brooke, Norman McLean The Old Testament in Greek, Volume I The Octateuch, Part I Genesis (Hardcover)
Alan England Brooke, Norman McLean
R982 R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Save R137 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar (Hardcover): Martin Hilpert Ten Lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar (Hardcover)
Martin Hilpert
R3,346 Discovery Miles 33 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Yukhíti Kóy - A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language (Hardcover): Geoffrey D. Kimball Yukhíti Kóy - A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language (Hardcover)
Geoffrey D. Kimball
R1,829 Discovery Miles 18 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Geoffrey Kimball presents the first grammar of the American Indian language Yukhíti Kóy, better known in English as Atakapa, once spoken in coastal southwestern Louisiana and coastal eastern Texas. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a drastic fall in the Atakapa population, and by the first decades of the twentieth century the Atakapa language ceased to be spoken. The grammar is based on the field notes collected by Albert Samuel Gatschet in January of 1885, with additional material collected by John R. Swanton in 1907–8. Gatschet worked with two speakers of the language, Kišyuc, also known as Yoyot, and her cousin Tottokš, whose English names were Louison Huntington and Delilah Moss, respectively. John R. Swanton wrote a grammatical sketch of Atakapa in 1929 based on Gatschet’s notes and in 1932 published the texts Gatschet had gathered, as well as a dictionary. The materials, originally written phonetically, have been phonemicized, and the nature of the grammar has been elucidated. The nine surviving texts in Yukhíti have been phonemicized, analyzed, and translated, and the parallels between them and other traditional oral literatures of Native American languages of the Southeast are discussed. This reference grammar includes a vocabulary of all words contained in the field notes.  

The Diachrony of Written Language Contact - A Contrastive Approach (Hardcover): Nikolaos Lavidas The Diachrony of Written Language Contact - A Contrastive Approach (Hardcover)
Nikolaos Lavidas
R4,429 Discovery Miles 44 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Nobody can deny that an account of grammatical change that takes written contact into consideration is a significant challenge for any theoretical perspective. Written contact of earlier periods or from a diachronic perspective mainly refers to contact through translation. The present book includes a diachronic dimension in the study of written language contact by examining aspects of the history of translation as related to grammatical changes in English and Greek in a contrastive way. In this respect, emphasis is placed on the analysis of diachronic retranslations: the book examines translations from earlier periods of English and Greek in relation to various grammatical characteristics of these languages in different periods and in comparison to non-translated texts.

Linguistic Studies on Biblical Hebrew (Hardcover): Robert D Holmstedt Linguistic Studies on Biblical Hebrew (Hardcover)
Robert D Holmstedt
R4,153 Discovery Miles 41 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume presents the research insights of twelve new studies by fourteen linguists examining a range of Biblical Hebrew grammatical phenomena. The contributions proceed from the second international workshop of the Biblical Hebrew Linguistics and Philology network (www.BHLaP.wordpress.com), initiated in 2017 to bring together theoretical linguists and Hebraists in order to reinvigorate the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar. Recent linguistic theory is applied to the study of the ancient language, and results in innovative insight into pausal forms, prosodic dependency, ordinal numeral syntax, ellipsis, the infinitive system, light verbs, secondary predicates, verbal semantics of the Hiphil binyan, and hybrid constructions.

Modern Greek Grammar - for the Use of Classical Students (Hardcover): James Donaldson Modern Greek Grammar - for the Use of Classical Students (Hardcover)
James Donaldson
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Epistle of St. James (Hardcover): Joseph B Mayor The Epistle of St. James (Hardcover)
Joseph B Mayor
R1,911 R1,558 Discovery Miles 15 580 Save R353 (18%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
May I Have a Word With You? - The Surprising Origins of Everyday Words of Religion and Spirituality (Hardcover): David Tickner May I Have a Word With You? - The Surprising Origins of Everyday Words of Religion and Spirituality (Hardcover)
David Tickner
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Old Testament in Greek, Volume I The Octateuch, Part III Numbers and Deuteronomy (Hardcover): Alan England Brooke, Norman... The Old Testament in Greek, Volume I The Octateuch, Part III Numbers and Deuteronomy (Hardcover)
Alan England Brooke, Norman McLean
R1,152 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R171 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek - Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache... The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek - Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache (Hardcover)
Lucien Van Beek
R5,680 Discovery Miles 56 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

How can we explain metrical irregularities in Homeric phrases like ? What do such phrases tell us about the antiquity of the epic tradition? And how did doublet forms such as beside originate? In this book, you will find the first systematic and complete account of the syllabic liquids in Ancient Greek. It provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and innovative etymological treatment of material from all dialects, including Mycenaean. A new model of linguistic change in the epic tradition is used to tackle two hotly-debated problems: metrical irregularities in Homer (including muta cum liquida) and the double reflex. The proposed solution has important consequences for Greek dialect classification and the prehistory of Epic language and meter.

The Alor-Pantar Languages - History and Typology. Second Edition. (Hardcover): Marian Klamer The Alor-Pantar Languages - History and Typology. Second Edition. (Hardcover)
Marian Klamer
R1,456 Discovery Miles 14 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture (Hardcover): James Essegbey Tutrugbu (Nyangbo) Language and Culture (Hardcover)
James Essegbey
R3,824 Discovery Miles 38 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is the first comprehensive description of Tutrugbu(Nyangbo-nyb), a Ghana Togo Mountain(gtm) language of the Kwa family. It is based on a documentary corpus of different genre of linguistic and cultural practices gathered during periods of immersion fieldwork. Tutrugbu speakers are almost all bilingual in Ewe, another Kwa language. The book presents innovative analyses of phenomena like Advanced Tongue Root and labial vowel harmony, noun classes, topological relational verbs, the two classes of adpositions, obligatory complement verbs, multi-verbs in a single clause, and information structure. This grammar is unparalleled in including a characterization of culturally defined activity types and their associated speech formulae and routine strategies. It should appeal to linguists interested in African languages, language documentation and typology.

Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography (Hardcover): William A. Ross Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography (Hardcover)
William A. Ross
R1,417 Discovery Miles 14 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Elements of Latin Pronunciation - for the Use of Students in Language, Law, Medicine, Zoology, Botany, and the Sciences... Elements of Latin Pronunciation - for the Use of Students in Language, Law, Medicine, Zoology, Botany, and the Sciences Generally in Which Latin Words Are Used (Hardcover)
Samuel Stehman 1812-1880 Haldeman
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Footprints of the Buddha - The Text and the Language (Hardcover): Alexander Vovin The Footprints of the Buddha - The Text and the Language (Hardcover)
Alexander Vovin
R3,321 Discovery Miles 33 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"The echo of the stone/ where I carved the [Buddha's] honorable footprints/ reaches the Heaven, [...]". This book presents the transcription, translation, and analysis of Chinese (753 AD) and Japanese inscriptions (end of the 8th century AD) found on two stones now in the possession of the Yakushiji temple in Nara. All these inscriptions praise the footprints of Buddha, and more exactly their carvings in the stone. The language of the Japanese inscription, which consists of twenty-one poems, reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing system shows a quite unique trait, being practically monophonic. The book is richly illustrated by photos of the temple and of the inscriptions.

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