Suspense and Authority amid Biblical Hebrew Front Dislocation

Korchin, Paul

doi:10.5508/jhs.2015.v15.a1

“…8 The fact that most of the 13 examples identified by Holmstedt and Jones as "ambiguous" were understood by the Masoretes as left dislocated verbless clauses, may mean that the semantic/pragmatic features of the left dislocated constituent were somewhat different in Biblical Hebrew than in English. Or it may mean that it is simply difficult to be certain about the semantic/pragmatic import of an ancient written text, the attempts by Korchin (2015) notwithstanding. It is important to note, however, that in the vast majority of cases, attention to the prosodic features of these constructions provides additional confirmation for distinguishing between the two constructions.…”

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At the interface of syntax and prosody: differentiating Left Dislocated and Tripartite Verbless Clauses in Biblical Hebrew

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Miller-Naudé

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2018

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The so-called tripartite verbless clause in Biblical Hebrew consists of two nominal phrases and a pronominal element. Three analyses of the pronominal element have been advanced, each with implications for understanding the structure of the sentence. A first approach has been to view the pronominal element as a copular constituent, which serves only to link the two nominal constituents in a predication (Albrecht 1887(Albrecht , 1888Brockelman 1956; and Kummerouw 2013). A second approach has been to view the pronominal element as the resumptive element of a dislocated constituent (Gesenius, Kautzsch and Cowley 1910;Andersen 1970; Zewi 1996Zewi , 1999Zewi , 2000Joüon-Muraoka 2006). A third approach combines the first and second approaches and is represented by the work of Khan (1988Khan ( , 2006 and Holmstedt and Jones (2014). A fourth approach views the pronominal element as a "last resort" syntactic strategy-the pronominal element is a pronominal clitic, which provides agreement features for the subject (Naudé 1990(Naudé , 1993(Naudé , 1994(Naudé , 1999(Naudé , 2002. The pronominal element is obligatory when the nominal predicate is a referring noun phrase-the pronominal clitic is used to prevent ambiguity in the assignment of subject and predicate (see Doron 1986; Borer 1983).As is well-known in the linguistics literature, cross-linguistically left dislocation involves a "gap" at the boundary between the dislocated constituent and the matrix sentence. In spoken

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“…The third relates to the relationship of the sentence involving left dislocation to the broader syntactic context. 4 By considering these questions within the context of contemporary linguistic 2 See, for example, Ben-Horin (1976); Gross (1987); ; (2016); Anangnostopoulou (1997); Anangnostopoulou, Van Riemsdijk, and Zwarts (1997); Rizzi (1997); Alexopoulou, Doron, and Heycock (2004); Alexiadou (2006); Korchin (2015); López (2016). 3 In a future article we consider the kind of intonational breaks between the dislocated constituent and the matrix sentence for each type of left dislocation, insofar as they can be determined in the Masoretic system of accents.…”

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Frequency, Analogy, and Suppletion

Groen¹

2021

Semitic Languages and Cultures

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His research is philological/linguistic in nature, focusing on ancient Hebrew, and encompassing diachrony and linguistic periodisation; syntax, pragmatics, and the verbal system; the Tiberian written and reading and non-Tiberian Hebrew traditions; textual criticism and literary formation; and historical and contemporary exegesis. He serves on the editorial board of the series Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures. Bo Isaksson (PhD, Uppsala, 1987) is Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University. His research has concerned Classical Hebrew in comparative perspective and Arabic dialectology. In recent years he has initiated two research projects on clause linking in Semitic languages which have generated a number of publications: Clause Combining in Semitic (Harrassowitz, 2015), Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages (Harrassowitz, 2014), Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: The Case of Arabic and Hebrew (Harrassowitz, 2009). His present topic of research is clause linking and the linguistic reality behind the 'consecutive tenses' in Classical Hebrew. Elisheva Jeffay is an MA candidate at Bar-Ilan University, where she received her BA in Linguistics and French. Her research is linguistic, focusing on names in Biblical Hebrew from a syntactic xii New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew and semantic perspective. Her MA thesis will explore the syntactic position of gentilic and personal proper names, as well as their semantics and lexical composition.

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The Alphabetic Revolution, Writing Systems, and Scribal Training in Ancient Israel

Koller¹

2021

Semitic Languages and Cultures

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His research is philological/linguistic in nature, focusing on ancient Hebrew, and encompassing diachrony and linguistic periodisation; syntax, pragmatics, and the verbal system; the Tiberian written and reading and non-Tiberian Hebrew traditions; textual criticism and literary formation; and historical and contemporary exegesis. He serves on the editorial board of the series Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures. Bo Isaksson (PhD, Uppsala, 1987) is Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University. His research has concerned Classical Hebrew in comparative perspective and Arabic dialectology. In recent years he has initiated two research projects on clause linking in Semitic languages which have generated a number of publications: Clause Combining in Semitic (Harrassowitz, 2015), Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages (Harrassowitz, 2014), Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: The Case of Arabic and Hebrew (Harrassowitz, 2009). His present topic of research is clause linking and the linguistic reality behind the 'consecutive tenses' in Classical Hebrew. Elisheva Jeffay is an MA candidate at Bar-Ilan University, where she received her BA in Linguistics and French. Her research is linguistic, focusing on names in Biblical Hebrew from a syntactic xii New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew and semantic perspective. Her MA thesis will explore the syntactic position of gentilic and personal proper names, as well as their semantics and lexical composition.

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Suspense and Authority amid Biblical Hebrew Front Dislocation

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At the interface of syntax and prosody: differentiating Left Dislocated and Tripartite Verbless Clauses in Biblical Hebrew

At the interface of syntax and prosody: differentiating Left Dislocated and Tripartite Verbless Clauses in Biblical Hebrew

Frequency, Analogy, and Suppletion

The Alphabetic Revolution, Writing Systems, and Scribal Training in Ancient Israel

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