The Network on Semantics of Classical Hebrew was approved by the ESF Executive Council in March 1991 and was completed by 1994.
The Chairman was Professor J. Hoftijzer from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

The dossier contains documents concerning the establishment and the management of the Network during the period 1989-1992: workshop to discuss the possible formation of a Network on Semantics of Classical Hebrew, Leiden, 24 Oct 1990; proposal for a network on Semantics of Classical Hebrew, 1990; correspondence and documents on the first meeting of the Coordination Committee, Strasbourg, 17-18 June 1991; second meeting of the Coordination Committee, Strasbourg, 17-18 Dec 1991; workshop 1 on "The semantic of dead languages with a limited corpus", Le Bischenberg (Strasbourg), 29 June-1 July 1992; meeting of the Coordination Committee, Bischenberg, 30 June – 1 July 1992; computer sub-committee meeting, Leiden, 12 Oct 1992; (preparation of the) second workshop on "The requirements for a Code System or Model", Florence, 15-17 April 1993.
The dossier also contains the papers for the workshop 1 on "The semantic of dead languages with a limited corpus": "Recent developments in linguistic semantics" by J. Lyons; "Etymological semantics" by Jonas C. Greenfield; "Paradigmatical semantics" by P. Swiggers; "Polysemy and homonymy" by J. H. Hospers; "Scope and problems in the semantics of classical Hebrew" by J. Barr; "Componential analysis" by P. Fronzaroli; "Pragmalinguistics and speech-act theory" by I. Zatelli; "Logical semantics" by J. S. Petöfi.

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