This text linguistic study investigates both the literary device of parallelism and the linguistic theory of the semantic field in ancient Hebrew literature. The purpose of the study is to examine whether or not a semantically related pair of verbs or predicate phrases that impl…
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This study offers a semantic analysis of the vocabulary of ‘fear’ terms in Biblical Hebrew. Biblical scholarship, including the area of semantics, has lagged behind some of the advances made in modern linguistic theory. In particular, semantic studies of the meanings of biblical…
Titi monkeys have long been known for their complex vocal behaviour with numerous high- and low-pitched calls, which can be uttered singly or combined in more complex structures. However, up to date very little is known concerning the function, meaning and context-specific use o…
Specificational sentences are famous because they exhibit connectivity. Connectivity refers to the fact that the pre- and the post-copular phrase in a copular sentence behave as if they were in a c-command configuration. More Specifically, a number of syntactic and semantic phen…
This is a study of the ancient Hebrew words which refer to cutting tools. This lexical field is here divided into sub-fields based on the uses of the implements to which the words refer, and the first few chapters offer detailed studies of the tools used in agricultural work, wo…
This dissertation analyses the linguistic parallels between the Gospel of John and the sectarian Qumran document, the Rule, and investigates the degree of semantic continuity in their respective uses of truth terminology. The major premise is that the Rule provides linguistic cl…
The present study aims at investigating the most effective method of clustering vocabulary in the presentation of vocabulary to learners. It investigated three types of clustering, semantically-related sets, semantically-unrelated sets, and thematically related sets and their ef…