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Which Acceptation? Ontologies for Historical Linguistics

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In this article, we resort to ontologies from computer science (and in particular, to a variant of partitioned semantic networks, themselves a kind of associative networks) in order to represent the lexical situation of Hebrew ṣanúa‘ and its acceptations throughout historical strata of that language, and in relation to Talmudic Aramaic and to Syriac. We develop a representation using such networks in order to capture instances of reasoning. Even though this is not necessary, ideally this approach would be combined with a lexical and semantic representation for Northwest Semitic languages, as introduced in the Raffaello / CuProS project, as described in a companion paper [54] in Vol. 1.

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