Source for the semantic range of ...

Jefferson, Robert C. X2JEFFER at southernco.com
Mon Aug 30 07:39:02 EDT 1999


I have seen on the Internet somewhere a very interesting Java program.

It is an English thesaurus where words are related by lines in a 3-d chart.
The distance between words show graphically how closely words are related.
And when you click on a new word it becomes the new center of the graph and
word related it circle it.
All of this is in virtual 3-d.  I think it has 70,000 words.

I think this would be very interesting in Greek, of course which Greek.


		
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	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Mike Sangrey [SMTP:mike at sojurn.lns.pa.us]
	Sent:	Friday, August 27, 1999 8:17 PM
	To:	Biblical Greek
	Subject:	Re: Source for the semantic range of ... 

	I've replied privately to Rolf, since what I said in that email is
	more linguistic than B-Greek.  However, there is one item that I
	think would be helpful to those on this list.  So, I've attached
	that below.

	furuli at online.no said:
	>  I would like to add another dimension, which you hint at, namely
the
	> one of different presupposition pools.
	[...]
	>  The native Greek speaker did not need any books for this but he
or
	> she could depend on the common presupposition pool of the native
	> speakers and would get an instant understanding of the meaning of
a
	> word.

	If one understands how a 'presuppositional pool' might work,
	then the method of learning vocabulary through memorization is
	humorously incomplete.  One should form a more complex structure
	than a list of glosses.  The structure would have to be a network
	of usages which are related in a variety of ways.  I don't have
	the experience to come up with the list of those ways, though.
	Does anyone happen to know where this might be discussed?

	The building of the network would only be possible by diligent
	study of grammatical constructions which are semantically related.
	So, a lexicon does not quite cut it.  Though a lexicon is a start;
	the ingesting of a complete lexical entry is needed to build the
	skeleton of the network in one's head. One still needs to go beyond
	that to think like a Greek.





	-- 
	Mike Sangrey
	mike at sojurn.lns.pa.us
	Lancaster, Pa.
	       There is no 'do' in faith, everywhere present within it is
'done'.



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