Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Books of the Hebrew Bible -- 2. General abbreviations -- 3. Secondary sources -- 4. Bible translations -- 5. Interlinear morpheme translation -- SYMBOLS -- HEBREW TRANSLITERATION -- CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1. The gap -- 2. Bridging the gap -- 3. Goals of the study -- 4. Outline -- 5. Conventions and terminology -- PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR LEXICAL SEMANTICS -- CHAPTER TWO: STRUCTURAL SEMANTICS AND SEMANTIC FIELDS -- 1. Sense relations -- 2. Paradigmatic relations -- 2.1. Hyponymy -- 2.2. Meronymy -- 2.3. Synonymy -- 2.4. Compatibility -- 2.5. Incompatibility and opposition -- 3. Syntagmatic relations -- 4. Semantic field theory -- 5. Terminological problems -- 6. Types of lexical relationship -- CHAPTER THREE: COGNITIVE SEMANTICS AND SEMANTIC FRAMES -- 1. The dynamic construal theory of meaning -- 2. Lexical meaning versus encyclopaedic information? -- 3. Dynamic construal and delineation of senses -- 4. Semantic frames -- 5. Dynamic construal, frames, sense, and sense relations -- 6. Metaphor, mental spaces, and frame blending -- 6.1. Cognitive Metaphor Theory -- 6.2. Mental spaces and Blending Theory -- 6.3. CMT and conventionalised metaphors -- 6.4. Conventionalised metaphors, novel metaphors, and lexicology -- 7. Concluding remarks -- CHAPTER FOUR: FROM TYPOLOGY TO RADICAL CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR -- 1. Construction grammar(s) -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Constructions and the symbolic nature of language -- 1.3. Construction inheritance relations and the 'constructicon' -- 1.4. Construction instances: nesting and blending -- 2. Deconstructing grammatical categories and syntactic relations -- 2.1. Atomic, schematic categories: universal, global, or constructional? -- 2.2. Distributional analysis.

2.3. The typological flaw: methodological opportunism -- 2.4. The logical flaw: vicious circularity -- 2.5. Syntactic relations: real or imaginary? -- 3. Reconstructing grammatical categories -- 3.1. Parts of speech -- 3.2. Heads, arguments, adjuncts, and valence in traditional grammar -- 3.3. Heads, arguments, adjuncts, and valence in RCG -- CHAPTER FIVE: FRAME SEMANTICS AND FRAMENET -- 1. Frames, frame elements and lexical units -- 1.1. Lexical units -- 1.2. Frames -- 1.3. Frame elements -- 1.4. Core and peripheral FEs -- 1.5. Extra-thematic FEs -- 1.6. Missing frame elements: null instantiation -- 2. FrameNet annotation -- 2.1. Phrase types and grammatical functions -- 2.2. Frame-bearing words, slot-fillers, and 'Gov-X annotation' -- 3. Valence description -- 4. More FrameNet concepts -- 4.1. Frame relations and FE relations -- 4.2. Semantic types -- 4.3. Support constructions -- 5. FrameNet reports -- 6. Lexicographic annotation and full-text annotation -- PART TWO: CRITIQUING AND ENHANCING FRAMENET -- CHAPTER SIX: RE-FRAMING THE THEORY: SEMANTICS -- 1. Categorising frame elements -- 1.1. Core and peripheral FEs -- 1.2. Core-peripheral variation between LUs in a frame -- 2. Target annotation and concept profiles -- 3. Null instantiation, utterances, and context -- 3.1. DNI or INI -- 3.2. Null instantiation (or not) -- 4. Frame inheritance and the categorisation triangle -- 5. Metaphor and dynamic construal -- CHAPTER SEVEN: RE-CONSTRUCTING THE THEORY: GRAMMAR -- 1. FrameNet and RCG: A partial integration -- 2. Two simple examples -- 3. Multi-level analysis of complex constructions -- 4. Multi-level analysis with adjunct constructions -- 5. Construction blending -- 6. Constructions and valence patterns -- 7. Looking forward -- 7.1. Frame semantics and the 'constructicon' -- 7.2. BH electronic texts and frame semantics.

PART THREE: FRAME SEMANTICS AND BIBLICAL HEBREW -- CHAPTER EIGHT: APPLYING THE FRAMEWORK TO BIBLICAL HEBREW -- 1. The ancient language problem -- 2. Corpus and parameters of the study -- 3. HebrewNet: Frame-based annotation of the mt -- 3.1. Frames, FEs, and LUs -- 3.2. The annotation process -- 3.3. Further features and limitations -- CHAPTER NINE: A COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF EXPLORING, SEARCHING, AND SEEKING -- 1. Foundational frames: [explore], [search], and [seek] -- 1.1. Comparing and relating the frames -- 1.2. [Explore] vs. [search], and the specific/non-specific distinction -- 1.3. The frames as subframes in complex events -- 2. Metaphoric extensions -- 2.1. [explore] -- 2.2. [seek scenario] -- 2.3. [seek] -- 2.4. Locating instances -- 3. Temporal profiles, resultative senses, and metonymic shifts -- 3.1. Telic processes -- 3.2. Variations in profiling of [explore], [search], and [seek] -- 4. Concluding remarks -- CHAPTER TEN: חקר AND TERMS FOR EXPLORING AND SEARCHING IN BH -- חקר . 1 : Preliminary presentation of the data -- 1.1. Initial categorisation of occurrences -- 1.2. Translations in the Septuagint -- 1.3. Parallels and potential paradigmatic relationships in the mt -- 1.4. "Search out" and ambiguous categorisations -- 2. Positive instances: Exegetical notes -- 2.1. Deuteronomy 13:15[14] -- 2.2. Judges 5:16 -- 2.3. Judges 18:2 -- 2.4. Jeremiah 17:10 -- 2.5. Jeremiah 31:37 -- 2.6. Ezekiel 39:14 -- 2.7. Psalm 44:22[21] -- 2.8. Psalm 95:4 -- 2.9. Job 5:27 -- 2.10. Job 8:8 -- 2.11. Job 11:7 -- 38:16 -- 2.12. Job 28:3 -- 2.13. Job 28:27 -- 2.14. Job 32:11 -- 2.15. Proverbs 23:30 -- 2.16. Proverbs 25:2 -- 2.17. Proverbs 25:27 -- 2.18. Proverbs 28:11 -- 2.19. Ecclesiastes 12:9 -- 3. Negated instances: General considerations -- 3.1. Uses of א י ן in BH -- 3.2. Negated חקר occurrences in the Versions -- 3.3. "Without limit".

3.4. Impossibility, or factual -- 4. Negated instances: Exegetical notes -- 4.1. 1 Kings 7:47 and 2 Chronicles 4:18 -- 4.2. Isaiah 40:28 -- 4.3. Job 5:9 -- 9:10 -- 4.4. Job 36:26 -- 4.5. Proverbs 25:3 -- 5. Paradigmatic relations: Other terms and frames related to חקר -- חפשׂ . -- תור . -- ר גל . -- בחן . -- בקש ׁand דרש.ׁ -- 6. Towards a frame account of חקר terms -- 6.1. Area vs. sought entity -- 6.2. Temporal profile, completive and resultative uses, metonymic shifts -- 6.3. חקר vs. חפשׂ , and [search]/[seek] variation -- 6.4. Judicial uses -- 7. Frames, lexical units, and annotations -- 7.1. [Explore] -- 7.2. [Search] -- 7.3. [Investigate] -- 7.4. [Examine person] -- 7.5. [Become aware of] -- 7.6. [Understanding] -- 7.7. [Unknown] -- 8. Concluding remarks -- 8.1. Exploring, searching, and seeking -- 8.2. Methodology -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: חקר IN THE LEXICA -- 1. Older lexica: BDB and HALAT/HALOT -- 2. Theological dictionaries: TDOT and NIDOTTE -- 3. Modern lexica: DCH, Alonso Schökel, and SDBH -- 3.1. DCH (David Clines) -- 3.2. Alonso Schökel -- 3.3. SDBH (Reinier de Blois) -- 4. Summary -- CHAPTER TWELVE: CONCLUSIONS -- 1. The benefits of Radical Frame Semantics -- 2. The potential of Radical Frame Semantics -- LIST OF WORKS CITED -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF HEBREW TERMS.