Greek semantic domain

Artifacts

The domain of Artifacts is particularly complex, for there are a number of relations between subsets of this class, and the very limitation of vocabulary in the NT results in a significant number of gaps. Artifacts may be classified on the basis of three different sets of features: (1) materials of which the object is made, (2) the form of the object, and (3) the function or use of the object. The third basis of classification has been generally employed in setting up the following subdomains of Artifacts, since use and function are so important for the translator and more often than not constitute the basis for determining adequate equivalents between languages. Function is not, however, a fully satisfactory basis for classification, since the same object may have more than one function. For example, ‘stocks’ may be instruments either (1) for fastening or binding and/or (2) for punishment. The meanings of the terms τρῆμα, τρύπημα, and τρυμαλιά ‘hole’ (semantic domain 6.216) should theoretically be treated in a larger domain of openings and apertures, but in the NT these terms are only used to refer to a hole in a needle, and hence for the convenience of translators these terms are treated together with the term for needle, since they refer specifically to a particular kind of a hole. The corresponding expressions in various receptor languages are often highly specific and frequently involve idiomatic equivalences. Because of the many different types of artifacts in this domain and the rather conspicuous gaps which occur because of the limited corpus of documents in the NT, it is not possible to arrange the subdomains in a strictly logical sequence or in an outline with several layers of logical distinctions. There are, however, a number of clusters of subdomains which may be significant for translators, for example, Subdomains source subdomain 006002 and source subdomain 006003. There is also a significant relationship between Subdomain source subdomain 006004 and Subdomain source subdomain 006005. Note also the relationship between Subdomain source subdomain 006020 and Subdomain source subdomain 006021.

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Advanced domain details
Domain ID
SDBC-DOMAIN-UBS-GRK-006
Source code
006
Level
1
Scheme
UBS Greek Lexical Domains

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