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Tense-switching in LBH
In my previous series of posts, one of my hesitations in applying tense-switching to biblical poetry was the assumption that the syntax of biblical narrative and poetry are somehow “synchronic… more →
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Tense-switching in LBH
wrote 2 years ago: In my previous series of posts, one of my hesitations in applying tense-switching to biblical poetry … more →
DABHVSinP - Part 8: Conclusion
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wrote 2 years ago: Sorry for the long delay, but I was pulled onto other projects at home (like caring for my wife who … more →
DABHVSinP - Part 7: Direct Speech
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wrote 2 years ago: Chip Hardy has resumed posting at Daily Hebrew, and Monday’s installment was part of a speech … more →
DABHVSinP - Part 6: Turning toward Poetry
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wrote 2 years ago: When I began this series, I agreed with Niccacci that the verb in poetry should function basically t … more →
DABHVSinP - Part 5: Beyond Narrative
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wrote 2 years ago: The distinction between foregrounded and backgrounded clauses began with the observation that a narr … more →
DABHVSinP - Part 4: Exceptions and Refinements
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wrote 2 years ago: In my last post I described Niccacci and Longacre’s analyses of the BH verb in narrative from … more →
DABHVSinP – Part 3: Grounding in BH Narrative
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wrote 2 years ago: OK, sorry for the long delay. I ended up on some rabbit trails, had to wait for some extra books to … more →
DABHVSinP - Part 2: Foreground and Background
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wrote 2 years ago: In this series of posts, I am interacting with Alviero Niccacci’s attempt to explain the BH ve … more →
A Discourse approach to the BH Verbal system in Poetry - Part 1
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wrote 2 years ago: In a recent series of posts, Phil Sumpter at Narrative and Ontology explored Alviero Niccacci’ … more →
Two new(ish) works on the Biblical Aramaic verbal system
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wrote 3 years ago: The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic A Distributional Approach Studies in Biblical Literature (Pete … more →
Rainey, A.F. “The Prefix Conjugation Patterns of Early Northwest Semitic.” Pages 407-420 in Lingering over Words: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran. Ed. by T. Abusch, J. Huehnergard, P. Steinkeller. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
wrote 3 years ago: The Amarna letters give important information about the West Semitic verbal system in the 14th centu … more →
Cohen, David. La Phrase Nominale Et L'évolution Du Système Verbal En Sémitique : Études De Syntaxe Historique. Leuven: Peeters, 1984.
wrote 3 years ago: In this work, Cohen seeks to analyze the influence of syntax on the morphological development of the … more →
Moran, William L. “The Hebrew language in its Northwest Semitic background.” Pages 53-72 in The Bible and the Ancient Near East. Essays in Honor of William Foxwell Albright, ed. G. Ernest Wright. New York: Garden City, 1961.
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wrote 3 years ago: In this classic article, Moran summarizes some of the contributions of other West Semitic languages … more →
Sivan, Daniel, "The use of QTL and YQTL forms in the Ugaritic Verbal System" Pages 89-103 in Past Links: Studies in the Languages and Cultures of the Ancient Near East, IOS 18. Edited by S. Izre’el, I. Singer and R. Zadok. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1998.
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wrote 3 years ago: For this volume dedicated to Anson Rainey, Sivan applies Rainey’s approach to the Semitic verb … more →
Fox, Samuel Ethan, "The Relationships of the Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects," JAOS Vol. 114, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1994): 154-162.
wrote 3 years ago: The Northeast Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects were spoken by the minority population of Jews and Christi … more →
Kouwenberg, N.J.C. Gemination in the Akkadian Verb. Studia Semitica Neerlandica 33. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1997.
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wrote 3 years ago: Kouwenberg challenges the consensus introduced by Goetze’s influential article, namely that th … more →
Goetze, Albrecht, "The So-Called Intensive of the Semitic Languages," JAOS Vol 62, No 1 (March, 1942): 1-8.
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wrote 3 years ago: The normal arrangement of the verbal paradigm in Semitic grammars was inherited from the Arabic gram … more →
The complicated morphology of the Semitic binyanim
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wrote 3 years ago: Writing my section on morphology, I spent some time thinking about the nature of the binyanim in the … more →
Smith, Mark S. The Origins and Development of the Waw-consecutive. Harvard Semitic Studies 39. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991.
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wrote 3 years ago: As the title indicates, this monograph is concerned with a diachronic look at the waw-consecutive in … more →
