A Cognitive Semantic Study of Biblical Hebrew : The Root Slm for Completeness-Balance.
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TextSeries: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9789004469778
- PJ4667.S55 L466 2021
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A Survey of Previously Conducted Research -- 1.1. From ָלוֹם to לם: From Peace to Intactness and Completeness -- 1.2. Exclusive Focus on לם: To Be Complete vs. To Pay -- 2. The Semitic Cognates of לם -- 2.1. Northwest Semitic -- 2.2. East Semitic (Akkadian) -- 2.3. Summary of the Semitic Cognate Study -- 3. Research Question -- 4. Limitations of Our Research -- 5. Outline of the Book -- Chapter 1. Methodology -- 1. Theoretical Question: Homonymy and Polysemy -- 1.1. Diachronic Relatedness: Etymology -- 1.2. Synchronic Relatedness: One Single Core Meaning -- 1.3. Cognitive Semantics: A Network of Core Meanings -- 1.4. Homonymy and Polysemy Form a Continuum -- 2. Methodological Discussion -- 2.1. Distributional Corpus Analysis -- 2.2. Frame Semantics -- 2.3. Valence -- 3. Illustration of the Methodology by Way of Examples -- 4. Specificity of the Present Study Vis-à-Vis Contemporary Semantic Studies -- Chapter 2. The לם D Stem -- 1. To Give Back: To Reach a Balance (between Two Parties) -- 1.1. To Restitute -- 1.2. To Repay (Debt) -- 1.3. To Fulfill (a Vow) -- 1.4. To Return (Something) -- 1.5. Observations on the Use of Particles -- 1.6. Synthesis of the Four Sub-Frames -- 2. To Retribute: To Reach Balance (Involving Three Parties) -- 2.1. Complete Syntactic Pattern: SP-D.5.5. -- 2.2. Four-Element SP: SP-D.5.4. -- 2.3. Three-Element SPs -- 2.4. Two-Element SPs -- 2.5. One-Element SPs -- 2.6. Synthesis -- 2.7. Observations on the Use of the Prepositions -- 3. Retribution as Balance -- 4. Cruces Interpretum -- 4.1. 1Kg 9:25 -- 4.2. Is 57:18 -- Chapter 3. The לם G Stem -- 1. To Be Complete and To Be Finished -- 1.1. To Be Complete -- 1.2. To Be Finished.
2. To Make an Alliance, To Be an Ally -- 2.1. Qal Participles -- 2.2. Finite Verb -- 3. Two Homonymous Verbs or One Polysemous Verb? -- Chapter 4. The לם H Stem -- 1. To Make (Something) Complete / Finished -- 1.1. To Make (Something) Complete -- 1.2. To Make (Something) Finished -- 1.3. Summary -- 2. To Enter an Alliance (with Someone) -- 2.1. Cases Involving Two Parties -- 2.2. Cases Involving Three Parties -- 3. Observation on the Prepositions -- 3.1. אֵת -- 3.2. עִם -- 3.3. אֶל and לְ -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Synthesis of the Semasiological Investigation of לם -- 1. The לם D stem -- 1.1. Two-Party Sub-Frames -- 1.2. Three-Party Sub-Frame: To Retribute -- 2. The לם G stem -- 2.1. To Be Complete -- 2.2. To Be in an Alliance -- 2.3. A Unified Semantic Scheme -- 3. The לם H stem -- 4. A Unified Polysemous לם -- 5. Relations between Stem-Formations -- 6. Comparison with the Semitic Cognates -- 6.1. Northwest Semitic Languages -- 6.2. East Semitic -- 6.3. Summary -- Chapter 6. Wider Perspectives -- 1. Research Results -- 2. Onomasiological Study of the Polysemy of לם -- 2.1. Onomasiology -- 2.2. גמל -- 2.3. גמר -- 2.4. Conclusion -- 3. Nominal and Adjectival Forms of the Root לם -- 3.1. Noun Forms -- 3.2. Adjectival Form -- 3.3. Summary -- Conclusion -- 1. Semantic and Methodological Notes -- 2. Theological Issues: Retribution and Peace -- Bibliography -- Index of Texts -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Hebrew Words and Phrases.
The author employs cognitive semantic and frame semantic to demonstrate the basic semantic structure of the Biblical Hebrew verb שׁלם.
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