Foundations for Syriac lexicography IV
Subtitle: colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project
By: edited by Kristian S. Heal and Alison G. Salvesen ; managing editor, Beryl Turner ; Index editor, Georgia Kate Kelly
Series: Perspectives on Syriac linguistics -- volume 5; Perspectives on Syriac linguistics -- vol. 5
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781611439335
Subjects: Language, style; Lexicography; Congresses; Syriac language; Bible
Other titles: Foundations for Syriac lexicography 4; Foundations for Syriac lexicography four; Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project
Notes: "[T]his volume, with one exception, contains papers originally presented at the 2007 and 2008 annual meetings of this research group [ISLP, International Syriac Language Project]."--Page xxi.

"Lexicography is necessarily both a solitary and a collaborative business. The actual work of writing a lexicon advances only through the solitary efforts of the lexicographer, even when working in a team. However, the decisions that are made, and the insights derived from this process result from and contribute to a larger conversation with the lexicographical community. One subset of this community has organized itself around the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP), and this volume, with one exception, contains papers originally presented at the 2007 and 2008 annual meetings of this research group. The papers from these two meetings provide an opportunity to reflect on general issues, dive into specific case studies and consider the benefits of comparative analysis—a salutary telescopic collection generating both perspective and concrete data for the lexicographical enterprise. This volume is the fourth published colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project (ISLP). In this volume, editors Kristian Heal and Alison Salvesen present papers from an international team of authors working to develop contemporary, interdisciplinary approaches to linguistics and lexicography. This volume includes articles by Frederick William Danker, Terry C. Falla, Jonathan Loopstra, Wido van Peursen and Dirk Bakker, Beryl Turner, Craig E. Morrison (O. Carm), Paul S. Stevenson, Percy S. F. van Keulen, and Janet Dyk, bringing together the latest research in Syriac linguistics and lexicography in a way that would also benefit those working in Greek and other Semitic languages."--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Moving Beyond Borders: Thoughts of A Greek Lexicographer / Frederick William Danker; title: Metaphor, Lexicography and Modern Linguistics: Should Figurative Speech Figure in Future Ancient-Language Lexica? / Terry C. Falla; title: The Patristic 'Syriac Masora' as a Resource for Modern Syriac Lexicography  / Jonathan Loopstra; title: Lemmatization and Morphological Analysis: The Case of HMN in Classical Syriac / Wido van Peursen and Dirk Bakker; title: Analysis of the Syriac Particle KY / Beryl Turner; title: The Peshitta in Jacob of Serugh: The Particle LM and Other Citation Markers / Craig E. Morrison, O. Carm; title: The Semantics of Syriac Motion Verbs in Exodus Chapters 1-19 / Paul S. Stevenson; title: Numerals and Nominal Inflection in Classical Syriac  / Wido van Peursen; title: Lexicographical Troubles with the Cardinal Numerals 1-20 in the Aramaic of the Targumim and in Classical Syriac / Percy S. F. van Keulen; title: The Cognate Verbs SYM and SWM in the Books of Kings: Similarities and Differences / Janet Dyk.