Item Detail
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28960
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0
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English
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What's in a Word? The Language of the Scriptures
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Journal of Book of Mormon Studies
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2003
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12
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2
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Provo, UT
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
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93-95, 118
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"A two-pronged approach to studying the scriptures emphasizes language as well as doctrine. Some typical syntactic structures that appear in the 19th-century Book of Mormon English include word-order variation, interruption, parenthesis, ellipsis, fragment, conjunctions, and parallel structure." [abstract provided]