What’s in a Word? The Language of the Scriptures

Title

What’s in a Word? The Language of the Scriptures

Publication Type

Journal Article

Year of Publication

2003

Authors

Journal

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Pagination

93-95, 118

Volume

12

Issue

2

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Bibliographic Citation

Abstract

A two-pronged approach to studying the scriptures emphasizes language as well as doctrine. Some typical syntactic structures that appear in 19th-century Book of Mormon English include word-order variation, interruption, parenthesis, ellipsis, fragment, conjunctions, and parallel structure.

Language
Parallelism
Doctrine
Etymology
Ellipsis
Scripture Study
Word Order
Interruption
Parenthesis
Fragment
Conjunctions

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