From polysemy to semantic change: remarks on the lexeme "miṣwà" in Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew
The paper discusses the semantic shifts of the lexeme miṣwà from Biblical Hebrew to Mishnaic Hebrew. This lexeme encodes some crucial notions of the Hebrew and Jewish value system, as those of commandment and duty. The linguistic data presented will offer a clear example of how the study of the lat...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali |
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| Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/12010 |