What's in a Word?: The Language of Scriptures

Authors

Cynthia L. Hallen

Keywords

Language, Book of Mormon as Literature

Abstract

A two-pronged approach to studying the scriptures emphasizes language as well as doctrine. Some typical syntactic structures that appear in 19th-century Book of Mormon English include word-order variation, interruption, parenthesis, ellipsis, fragment, conjunctions, and parallel structure.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Hallen, Cynthia L. (2003) "What's in a Word?: The Language of Scriptures," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies: Vol. 12: No. 2, Article 11.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol12/iss2/11