Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-455) and indexes.

Preliminary Materials / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter One. The Text / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Two. The Place Of The Syriac Translanon In The Textual History Of Sirach / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Three. The Syriac Sirach As A Translanon / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Four. Tendencies In The Syriac Sirach Not Shared By The ‘Expanded Text’ / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Five. Intertextual Analysis / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Six. The Religious Profile Of The Syriac Sirach / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Seven. The Calap Model Of Textual Analysis / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Eight. The Procedure Of The Calap Analysis / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Nine. Preliminary Remarks On Phrase Structure / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Ten. Phrases With One Extension / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Eleven. Phrases With Two Extensions / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twelve. Phrases With More Than Two Extensions And Other Complex Phrase Structures / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Thirteen. Discontinuous Phrases / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Fourteen. Independent Use Of XXX / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Fifteen. Towards A Maximum Matrix Of Phrases / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Sixteen. Preliminary Remarks On Clause Structure / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Seventeen. Bipartite Nominal Clauses / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Eighteen. Tripartite Nominal Clauses / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Nineteen. Quadripartite Nominal Clauses / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty. Participials / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty-One. Extraposition And Pronominal Agreement / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Existential Clauses / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Clauses Containing The Verb XXX / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Cleft Sentences / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Functions Of The Pronoun / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Preliminary Remarks On Clause Hierarchy / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. Clause Hierarchy In The Praise Of The Fathers / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. Conclusions / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Bibliography / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Index Of Passages / W.Th. Van Peursen -- Index Of Authors / W.Th. Van Peursen.

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This book is the result of an innovative linguistic study of the Syriac translation of Ben Sira. It contains both a traditional philological analysis, incorporating matters of text-historical interest and translation technique, and also the results of a computational linguistic analysis of phrases, clauses and texts. It arrives at new linguistic insights, including a proposal for a corpus-based description of phrase structure based on a so-called maximum matrix. The book also addresses the fundamentally different way in which a text is approached in a computer-assisted analysis compared with the way in which this is done in traditional philological approaches. It demonstrates how the computer-assisted analysis can fruitfully shed light on or supplement traditional philological research.