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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12/2 (2003)
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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
Hallen, Cynthia L. (Primary)
Journal
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
Pagination
93-95, 118
Volume
12
Issue
2
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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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