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# Christo H. J. van der Merwe

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2004–2020

Christo H. J. van der Merwe wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2004–2020, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Machine translation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/machine-translation/); often with Geoffrey A. Khan.

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5065948470) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7217-2870) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5065948470) · [348 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5065948470) · [58 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065948470) — openalex, 2026-10-18

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Topics: [Discourse analysis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/discourse-analysis/) 1 · [Machine translation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/machine-translation/) 1

## Papers

1. **[Towards a Comprehensive Model for Interpreting Word Order in Classical Biblical Hebrew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2020-khan-towards-comprehensive-model-interpreting-word/)** *(2020)* A model of fronting (a core argument before a finite verb) built on all finite verbal clauses of 1 Samuel.
2. **[The Bible in Afrikaans: A direct translation – A new type of church Bible](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/merwe-2012-bible-afrikaans-direct-translation-new/)** *(2012)* The article is a project account. It describes how the Bible Society of South Africa commissioned a source-oriented (direct) Afrikaans Bible for churches that asked for a close rendering of the original. The academic model rests on Nord's functional model of translation, complemented by Gutt's relevance-based…
3. **[An overview of recent developments in the description of Biblical Hebrew relevant to Bible translation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2004-merwe-overview-recent-developments-description-biblical/)** *(2004)* Not read: the PDF is not in the library. From the title and the author's other surveys: a review, for Bible translators, of what linguistics changed in the description of Biblical Hebrew in the 1990s — the verbal system (aspect, tense, discourse functions of wayyiqtol and weqatal), word order and information…

## Co-authors (1)

- Geoffrey A. Khan
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