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The volume demonstrates how useful Lord’s term “special grammar” can be when applied to various literatures, including Homeric epic, ancient Egyptian literature, biblical literature, Latin classics, and Serbo-Croatian epic. Lord’s intuition about “special grammar” is also confirmed by careful comparison to contemporary cognitive-linguistic approaches, including Cognitive Linguistic, Conversation Analysis, Chaos Theory, Construction Grammar, Distributional Semantics, Dialogic Syntax, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The chapters provide new insights on how special grammar relates to word selection, formulas, and larger “literary” structures in Homer as well as linguistic register, alphabetic acrostic poems, ring composition, and alliteration in other traditional literatures.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004776968
Format: Hardcover
Raymond F. Person, Jr. is Professor of Religion at Ohio Northern University. His primary area of research is Hebrew Bible, drawing especially from Conversation Analysis and the comparative study of oral traditions. His recent monograph is Scribal Memory and Word Selection.
Contributors are: Mia Pancotti, Ahuvia Kahane, Justin Arft, Mar A. Rodda, Giuseppe Lentini, Elizabeth Minchin, Ruth Scodel, Rodrigo Verano, Jacqueline E. Jay, Foy Scalf, Joey Hyatt, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, Jacobus A. Naudé, Sławomir Torbus, Łukasz Berger, Paul Hay, Anna Bonifazi.
Contributors are: Mia Pancotti, Ahuvia Kahane, Justin Arft, Mar A. Rodda, Giuseppe Lentini, Elizabeth Minchin, Ruth Scodel, Rodrigo Verano, Jacqueline E. Jay, Foy Scalf, Joey Hyatt, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, Jacobus A. Naudé, Sławomir Torbus, Łukasz Berger, Paul Hay, Anna Bonifazi.