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1. A Case for Generative Linguistics in New Testament Exegesis : Surveying the Current Theoretical Landscape and Possible Applicability to Biblical Studies
University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för religionsvetenskap och teologiAbstract : This essay surveys the current theoretical landscape of modern linguistics, asking whethe generative and possibly transformational linguistics can be applied to syntactic analysis of New Testament texts written in Koine Greek to find lingual hallmarks in the form of personal usage of syntactic rules that uniquely identify the authors of the texts. The conclusion is that there seems to be evidence that an application of a minimalist approach could make the detection of such lingual hallmarks possible. READ MORE
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2. Selected topics in the grammar and lexicon of Matal
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : This thesis describes basic grammatical features and lexicon of Matal, a Chadic language spoken by around 18 000 people in northern Cameroon. A translation of the New Testament is used as a parallel text for the purposes of this study. The identified language structures are compared with other Chadic languages. READ MORE
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3. A graphotactic language metric
University essay from KTH/Matematik (Inst.)Abstract : In this bachelor’s thesis, we try to classify and identify written human languages by studying the ordering of letters in text. Automatic language identification is of interest in areas such as text indexing, machine translation and natural language parsing. READ MORE
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4. Selected Topics in the Grammar of Nalca
University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : The present study analyzes a selection of topics in the grammar of Nalca (Mek language; Papua), with a focus on verbs and nominals. No published grammar or dictionary is available for Nalca, but a translation of the New Testament was used as a parallel text. READ MORE