Pronominal relative clauses were previously reported to be unproductive in English, appearing only in Bible verses and proverbs. This corpus study of Twitter data shows that pronominal relative clauses are a productive part of contemporary English, and can be used in both literary and nonliterary registers.

Scholars remain divided today over the origin and identity of the Wisdom Woman in Prov. 1-9. Many roads run back to her door through mythological, 2 sapiential, 3 apocalyptic, 4 rabbinic 5 and early Christian 6 circles of tradition. Attempts to pursue her prior to the book of Proverbs remain difficult, a problem for which at least four solutions have been proposed.

One of the manifestations culture and civilization even literature any country is proverbs, rulings short rich words that arise from greats science or common people in our vast ancient language there are thousands proverbs Which has taste, thought kindness good interpretation saying meaning. The a society, when they find their experiences reserves those past as accepted certain facts, express t...

In the Proverbs Test (10), the subject is asked to tell the meaning of a proverb. For normal subjects, even as young as fifth graders, this request readily stimulates what Goldstein refers to as the "abstract attitude." Indeed, the process of translating the concrete symbols of a proverb into generalized concepts is almost explicitly described in one of Goldstein's characterizations of abstract...

To begin with a theoretical question, what happens to the development of literature when a relatively new cultural system based on the written word is superimposed upon an ancient oral traditional culture? The first discovery is that the oral culture does not immediately disappear by the mere fact of its being in contact with writing, nor does the literature of the oral society disappear becaus...