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Time and the biblical Hebrew verb : the expression of tense, aspect, and modality in biblical Hebrew
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The verbal system of the Dead Sea scrolls : tense, aspect, and modality in Qumran Hebrew texts
\"In Verbs in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Tense, Aspect, or Mood? Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the intervening period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were written has remained controversial. Penner answers the question of Qumran Hebrew verb form semantics using an empirical method: a database calculating the correlation between each form and each function, establishing that the ancient author's selection of verb form is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality. Penner then applies these findings to controversial interpretations of three Qumran texts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Aspect, communicative appeal, and temporal meaning in Biblical Hebrew verbal forms
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.
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The Verbal System in Late Enlightenment Hebrew
This book constitutes the first thorough, corpus-based analysis of the verb in Late Maskilic (Jewish Enlightenment) Hebrew prose fiction. It assesses Maskilic Hebrew verbal morphology and syntax both synchronically and within the context of the diachronic Hebrew verbal system.
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Advances in biblical Hebrew linguistics : data, methods, and analyses
\"In recent decades, the study of biblical Hebrew has profited enormously from the application of methodologies derived from general linguistics. During the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Adina Moshavi and Tania Notarius organized sessions devoted to exploring new developments in biblical Hebrew linguistics, bringing together many of the world's experts in the field. The papers in this volume are based on research presented at those sessions, along with additional articles specifically written for this volume. The essays included here address topics in philology, language contact, text-linguistics and linguistic pragmatics, syntax, and applied linguistics. The collection showcases biblical Hebrew linguistics as a dynamic and innovative endeavor that is making important contributions to the study of the Bible, Hebrew language, and modern linguistics\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Becoming Frum
When non-Orthodox Jews becomefrum(religious), they encounter much more than dietary laws and Sabbath prohibitions. They find themselves in the midst of a whole new culture, involving matchmakers, homemade gefilte fish, and Yiddish-influenced grammar.Becoming Frumexplains how these newcomers learn Orthodox language and culture through their interactions with community veterans and other newcomers. Some take on as much as they can as quickly as they can, going beyond the norms of those raised in the community. Others maintain aspects of their pre-Orthodox selves, yielding unique combinations, like Matisyahu's reggae music or Hebrew words and sing-song intonation used with American slang, as in \"mamish(really) keepin' it real.\"Sarah Bunin Benor brings insight into the phenomenon of adopting a new identity based on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research among men and women in an American Orthodox community. Her analysis is applicable to other situations of adult language socialization, such as students learning medical jargon or Canadians moving to Australia.Becoming Frumoffers a scholarly and accessible look at the linguistic and cultural process of \"becoming.\"
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THE GRAMMATICALIZATION PATH OF WH-EXPLETIVE NEGATION CONSTRUCTIONS
This paper focuses on wh-based exclamatives, both positive ones and negative ones, and claims that while the former evolve via the speaker's strong (usually negative) stance, the latter evolve via an argumentative stance implying exhaustivity, later turning into a discourse marking constructions of 'indifference', often defined in the literature as 'expletive negation'. These are standardly defined as cases where a sole negator seemingly does not modify the truth-value or truth-conditions of the proposition, or alternatively, the occurrence of a negative marker without apparent negative force. In this paper, I examine the linguistic evolution of wh-based negative exclamatives often defined as expletive negation (EN) and focus my analysis on Hebrew. The main claim is that positive wh-exclamatives and negative wh-expletives evolve via different rhetorical motivations, but in both cases it is the question’s initial rhetorically-recruited function that motivates its semantic change (alongside grammatical and prosodic changes) and it is that function that also persists throughout their history. The paper offers constructionalization and grammaticalization processes of wh-EN exclamatives, focusing on the nature of the negator within those constructions.
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