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Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Big Picture: An Overview of How Language Works Five Key Characteristics of Language Three Essential Ways to Look at Language How Language and Culture Relate Summary and Preview For Further Study Internet Resources Exercises 2. Can You Spell That? Reading and Writing How Writing Works Three Types of Writing Systems The Sounds of Language The Sounds of Hebrew The Sounds of Greek The Semitic Origin of the Greek and English Alphabets The Shapes of Hebrew, Greek, and English Letters Summary and Preview For Further Study Internet Resources Exercises 3. Putting It into Words: How Words Are Made How We Can Understand Words How We Classify Morphemes How Morphemes Add Meaning Affixes That Add Grammatical Information to a Word Questions That Languages Ask About Nouns and Pronouns Questions That Languages Ask About Verbs Hebrew Morphology Greek Morphology Comparing Hebrew, Greek, and English Morphology Putting Inflection and Derivation Together Morphemes with More Than One Form Classifying Languages Summary and Preview For Further Study Exercises 4. Word Groups and Group Words: Phrases and Clauses Putting Words in Groups Analyzing Phrases and Clauses Picturing Phrases and Clauses Forming Phrases Classifying Languages by Word Order Summary and Preview For Further Study Exercises 5. Telling Stories and Writing Letters: Understanding Discourse Discourse Patterns Discourse Types Discourse Tools Summary and Preview For Further Study Exercises 6. What Do You Mean? It's Just Semantics What Do We Mean by Semantics? How Can a Word Have More Than One Meaning? How Are Words Related? What About Figurative Language? When Is Language Ambiguous? How Is a Sentence Like a Play? How Does Context Relate to Language? How Do We Get Things Done with Language? Summary and Preview For Further Study Internet Resources Exercises 7. Variety Is the Spice of Life: Dialects and Change Why Do People Speak Differently? Why Do Languages Change? How Do We Know When Languages Are Related? Summary and Preview For Further Study Internet Resources Exercises 8. Practical Ways to Study (and Learn) the Biblical Languages Separating the Children from the Adults Are You Motivated? Yes! Getting to Know You: How Your Personality Type Affects Learning Seeing, Hearing, and Doing Setting Goals in Language Learning How Can I Learn All Those Words? Hints for Learning Hebrew Vocabulary Hints for Learning Greek Vocabulary Summary and Preview For Further Study Internet Resources Exercises Appendix: Glossary of Linguistic Terms Definitions For Further Study Internet Resources References References to Linguistics in General References to Linguistics and the Bible References to New Testament Greek References to Biblical Hebrew Footnotes Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Hebrew language Grammar, Greek language, Biblical Grammar, Bible, O, T, Language, style