TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevenson,Paul
TI  - Stanzaic Syntax in the Madrashe of Ephrem the Syrian
T2  - Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Amsterdam,
SN  - 9789004306301
AV  - PJ5671.E7 Z85 2015
U1  - 892/.3 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston, Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Ephraem,
KW  - Syriac poetry
KW  - Syriac language
KW  - Style
KW  - Syntax
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Introduction -- Madrāšâ V -- Madrāšâ VI -- Summary and Conclusion -- Catalog of Syntactic Devices -- Concordance of Madrāšâ V on Paradise -- Concordance of Madrāšâ VI on Paradise -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - In Stanzaic Syntax in the Madrashe of Ephrem the Syrian , which focuses on madrāšê V and VI in the Paradise cycle, Paul S. Stevenson looks at Ephrem’s poetic art from the point of view of a linguist. This study goes beyond the traditional levels of analysis, the clause and the sentence, and examines the structure of whole stanzas as units. The result is a surprisingly rich tapestry of syntactic patterning, which can justly be considered the key to Ephrem’s prosody. The driving force behind Ephrem’s poetry turns out not to be meter or sound play, but a variety of syntactic templates, which include even vertical patterning of constituents
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004306301
ER  -