Morph 4.14 released!
As is our custom, July 1st (2010) saw the release of version 4.14 of The Westminster Hebrew Morphology. For a summary of the improvements of this release click on the news link above...
The Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)
No morphology can be accurate or complete without an accurate and complete text upon which it is based. With every release of our Hebrew morphology we also release an updated version of the text upon which it is based:
- 16 changes in vowels
- 49 changes in accents
- 60 changes in morphological divisions ("slashes")
- WLC was compared to Biblia Hebraica Quinta so far as has been published: #18 – Megilloth, #5 – Deuteronomy, #20 – Ezra-Nehemiah and #17 - Proverbs. We have yet to have a disagreement in consonants with BHQ, but we disagree with BHQ about some punctuation and vowels.
- The notes where WLC disagrees with Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia have been adjusted. WLC and BHS continue to converge with fewer and fewer disagreements.
The Morphology
In this past year we have made the following changes:
- 9 changes in lemmas
- 23 changes in parsing
- 4 changes in part of speech
- 1 change in word division
- 2 additions of an implicit definite article
We are rapidly approaching the point where errors are obvious. More and more, it is becoming a matter of how to interpret the physical manuscript of the Leningrad Codex or a matter of interpretation or grammatical ambiguity for parsing. We are documenting our disagreements with HALOT not just with lemmas, but also with part of speech assignments and parsings.
