Christo H. J. van der Merwe

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2004–2020

Christo H. J. van der Merwe wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2004–2020, most of them on Discourse analysis, Machine translation; often with Geoffrey A. Khan.

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Topics: Discourse analysis 1 · Machine translation 1

Papers

Towards a Comprehensive Model for Interpreting Word Order in Classical Biblical Hebrew (2020)
A model of fronting (a core argument before a finite verb) built on all finite verbal clauses of 1 Samuel.
The Bible in Afrikaans: A direct translation – A new type of church Bible (2012)
The article is a project account. It describes how the Bible Society of South Africa commissioned a source-oriented (direct) Afrikaans Bible for churches that asked for a close rendering of the original. The academic model rests on Nord's functional model of translation, complemented by Gutt's relevance-based…
An overview of recent developments in the description of Biblical Hebrew relevant to Bible translation (2004)
Not read: the PDF is not in the library. From the title and the author's other surveys: a review, for Bible translators, of what linguistics changed in the description of Biblical Hebrew in the 1990s — the verbal system (aspect, tense, discourse functions of wayyiqtol and weqatal), word order and information…

Co-authors (1)

Geoffrey A. Khan

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