two models?

Wayne Leman wayne_leman at sil.org
Thu Oct 24 13:17:19 EDT 2002


In my previous message I said:

> DA, as practiced by SIL members and similar linguists, is essentially an
> extension of other structuralist approaches to language. Within this
> linguistic model, DA discovers inter-sentential relationships, many of
which
> are encoded in Greek, for instance, by particles such as GAR, DE, etc. The
> results of this kind of DA are often displayed in SSAs (Semantic Structure
> Analysis diagrams).

I don't want to leave the impression that this DA approach only studies
inter-sentential relationships. It also looks for other supra-sentential
relationships such as textual marking of lexical cohesion, thematic unity,
logical progression, narrative flow, temporal sequencing, etc.

DA, with this approach, has been applied to the study of both biblical
Greek and Hebrew texts. A number of linguistic forms in the biblical
languages, as in all languages, have been found to function not at a phrase
or clause level, but at higher levels of language, including those of
paragraphs, episodes, pericopes, logical argument sections, etc.

Wayne
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