Reported Direct Speech in the Hebrew Bible and in the Andersen-Forbes Morphology and Syntax Database
SBL Annual Meeting 2020 Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Seminar: The Intersection of Text and Language in the Hebrew Bible: Innovative Tools and Methods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16969413 |
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| Authors | Ulf Bergström (0000-0002-5478-0634, University of the Free State, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Semitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1013-8471 • E-ISSN: 2663-6573 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.25159/2663-6573/9319 |
| OpenAlex | W4210784654 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The article outlines the phenomenon of direct reported speech in the Hebrew Bible and presents some of the guiding principles for the recently undertaken revision of the speech level markup in the Andersen-Forbes Morphology and Syntax Database. For the revised version of the markup, a higher number of unusual forms of direct speech has been included, such as implied direct speech and direct speech introduced by quotative frames without verbs of speech. The article argues that a simplified markup strategy is often both methodologically and theoretically appropriate for texts that are vague, ambiguous, and/or generally underspecified with respect to direct speech. The simplified markup strategy means that when there is uncertainty as to whether a given point of transition in the text marks either the beginning or the end of a unit of reported speech, one should assume that the current state of affairs continues
Direct speech · Indirect speech · Linguistics · Markup language · Natural language processing · Syntax · World Wide Web · XML · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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