Download or read book Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira written by Wido Th. van Peursen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 491 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.