Download or read book Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira written by W. Th Van Peursen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After subjecting the Syriac translation of Ben Sira to traditional philological analysis the author conducts computer-assisted linguistic studies of phrases, clauses and texts. He reaches particularly interesting proposals for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix.