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This book is the result of an innovative linguistic study of the Syriac translation of Ben Sira. It contains both a traditional philological analysis, incorporating matters of text-historical interest and translation technique, and also the results of a computational linguistic analysis of phrases, clauses and texts. It arrives at new linguistic insights, including a proposal for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix. The book also addresses the fundamentally different way in which a text is approached in a computer-assisted analysis compared with the way in which this is done in traditional philological approaches. It demonstrates how the computer-assisted analysis can fruitfully shed light on or supplement traditional philological research.

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Willem Th. van Peursen, Ph.D. (1999), Leiden University, is research fellow at the Peshitta Institute Leiden and author of The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira (Brill, 2004), and editor of Corpus Linguistics and Textual Histor

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