Del 16 - Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic

Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book provides a new explanation for what has long been a challenge for scholars of Biblical Hebrew: how to understand the expression of verbal tense and aspect.Working from a representative text corpus, combined with database queries of specific usages and surveys of examples discussed in the scholarly literature, Ulf Bergström gives a comprehensive overview of the semantic meanings of the verbal forms, along with a significant sample of the variation of pragmatically inferred tense, aspect, or modality (TAM) meanings. Bergström applies diachronic typology and a redefined concept of aspect to demonstrate that Biblical Hebrew verbal forms have basic aspectual and derived temporal meanings and that communicative appeal, the action-triggering function of language, affects verbal semantics and promotes the diversification of tense meanings. Bergström’s overarching explanation of the semantic development of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system is an important contribution to the study of the evolution of the verbal system and meanings of individual verbs in the Hebrew Bible. Accessibly written and structured for seminar use, Bergström’s study brings new perspectives to a debate that, in many ways, had reached a stalemate, and it challenges scholars working with TAM and the Biblical Hebrew verb to revisit their theoretical premises. Advanced students and scholars of Biblical Hebrew and other Semitic languages will find the study thought provoking, and linguists will appreciate its contributions to linguistic theory and typology.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-22
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLinguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic
Antal sidor232
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9781646021406

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsTransliteration KeyChapter 1. Introduction1.1 The Problem1.2 Aim1.3. What “Meaning” Means1.3.1. Semantics and Pragmatics1.3.2. Criteria for Explanatory Semantics1.4. The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System1.5. Scope1.5.1. Source Material1.5.2. Diachronic Diversity1.5.3. Prose and Poetry1.6. SummaryChapter 2. Comments on the State of Research2.1. Tense2.2. Aspect2.2.1. Aspect in Classical Grammar2.2.2. Modern Times2.2.3. Reference Time, Focused Time, and Deictic Centers2.2.4. Aspect in Hebraistic Studies2.3. Modality2.4. Linguistic Attitude (Sprechhaltung)2.5. The Grammaticalization Approach2.6. SummaryChapter 3. A Theory of Aspect and Tense3.1. Introductory Note: Nonsemantic Factors Indicating Tense3.2. Aktionsart3.3. Focused Time and the Definition of Tense and Aspect3.4. Stage- Based Aspect3.4.1. Resultative3.4.2. Progressive3.4.3. Preparative3.4.4. Stage- Based Aspect and Aktionsart: An Overview3.5. Stage- Based Versus Limit- Based Analysis of Aspect3.6. Temporalization3.7. SummaryChapter 4. Progressive and Resultative Verbs in Biblical Hebrew4.1. Qotel 984.1.1. Invariant Progressive qotel 984.1.2. Temporalized qotel 1034.1.3. Nonprogressive and Nominal qotel 1044.2. Yiqtol-L 1084.2.1. Invariant Progressive yiqtol-L 1084.2.2. Temporalized yiqtol-L 1144.3. Qatal 1184.3.1. Invariant Resultative qatal 1194.3.2. Temporalized qatal 1324.3.3. Adjectival and Verbal Stative qatal 1414.4. Yiqtol-S 1424.4.1. Invariant Resultative yiqtol-S: wayyiqtol 1424.4.2. Temporalized wayyiqtol 1494.4.3. Free- Standing Declarative yiqtol-S 1514.4.4. Volitive yiqtol-S 1554.5. SummaryChapter 5. Communicative Appeal and the Semantics of the Biblical Hebrew Verb5.1. The Semiotic Foundations for a Theory of Appeal in Language 1585.2. Criteria for Full Communicative Appeal 1625.2.1. Imminence 1625.2.2. Nonexpectancy 1635.2.3. Efficiency 1655.3. Communicative Appeal and Verbal Grammar: The Case of theEnglish Progressives 1705.4. Communicative Appeal in the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System 1725.4.1. The Resultative Subsystem 1735.4.2. The Progressive Subsystem 1765.4.3. The Volitive Subsystem 1805.5. SummaryChapter 6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex