Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew

Exploring Lexical Semantics
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-18839-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 108, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

Since James Barr’s work in the 1960s, the challenge for Hebrew scholars has been to continue to apply the insights of linguistic semantics to the study of biblical Hebrew. This book begins by describing a range of approaches to semantic and grammatical analysis, including structural semantics, cognitive linguistics and cognitive metaphors, frame semantics, and William Croft’s Radical Construction Grammar. It then seeks to integrate these, formulating a dynamic approach to lexical semantic analysis based on conceptual frames, using corpus annotation. The model is applied to biblical Hebrew in a detailed study of a family of words related to “exploring,” “searching,” and “seeking.” The results demonstrate the value and potential of cognitive, frame-based approaches to biblical Hebrew lexicology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shead, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Introduction
1. The gap
2. Bridging the gap
3. Goals of the study
4. Outline
5. Conventions and terminology
6. Interlinear morpheme translation

PART ONE
FOUNDATIONS FOR LEXICAL SEMANTICS

II Structural semantics and semantic fields
1. Sense relations
2. Paradigmatic relations
2.1 Hyponymy
2.2 Meronymy
2.3 Synonymy
2.4 Compatibility
2.5 Incompatibility and opposition
3. Syntagmatic relations
4. Semantic field theory
5. Terminological problems
6. Types of lexical relationship

III Cognitive semantics and semantic frames
1. The dynamic construal theory of meaning
2. Lexical meaning versus encyclopaedic information?
3. Dynamic construal and delineation of senses
4. Semantic frames
5. Dynamic construal, frames, sense, and sense relations
6. Metaphor, mental spaces, and frame blending
6.1 Cognitive Metaphor Theory
6.2 Mental spaces and Blending Theory
6.3 CMT and conventionalised metaphors
6.4 Conventionalised metaphors, novel metaphors, and lexicology
7. Concluding remarks

IV From typology to Radical Construction Grammar
1. Construction grammar(s)
1.1 Background
1.2 Constructions and the symbolic nature of language
1.3 Construction inheritance relations and the ’constructicon’
1.4 Construction instances: nesting and blending
2. Deconstructing grammatical categories and syntactic relations
2.1 Atomic, schematic categories: universal, global, or constructional?
2.2 Distributional analysis
2.3 The typological flaw: methodological opportunism
2.4 The logical flaw: vicious circularity
2.5 Syntactic relations: real or imaginary?
3. Reconstructing grammatical categories
3.1 Parts of speech
3.2 Heads, arguments, adjuncts, and valence in traditional grammar
3.3 Heads, arguments, adjuncts, and valence in RCG

V Frame Semantics and FrameNet
1. Frames, frame elements and lexical units
1.1 Lexical units
1.2 Frames
1.3 Frame elements
1.4 Core and peripheral FEs
1.5 Extra-thematic FEs
1.6 Missing frame elements: null instantiation
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2. FrameNet annotation
2.1 Phrase typ

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen L. Shead, Ph.D. (2007) in biblical Hebrew, University of Sydney, lectures Old Testament and Biblical Theology at the Centro de Estudios Pastorales in Santiago, Chile.