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Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew

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In this book John Cook interacts with the range of approaches tothe perennial questions on the Biblical Hebrew verb in afair-minded approach. Some of his answers may appear deceptivelytraditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification ofthe qatal-yiqtol opposition. However, his approach isdistinguished from the traditional approaches by its modernlinguistic foundation. One distinguishing sign is his employment ofthe phrase "aspect prominent" to describe the Biblical Hebrewverbal system. As with almost any of the world's verbal systems,this aspect-prominent system can express a wide range of aspectual,tensed, and modal meanings. In chap. 3, he argues that each of theforms can be semantically identified with a general meaning andthat the expressions of specific aspectual, tensed, and modalmeanings by each form are explicable with reference to its generalmeaning. After a decade of research and creative thinking, theauthor has come to frame his discussion not with the centralquestion of "Tense or Aspect?" but with the question "What is therange of meaning for a given form, and what sort of contextualfactors (syntagm, discourse, etc.) help us to understand this rangein relation to a general meaning for the form?" In chap. 4 Cookaddresses long-standing issues involving interaction between thesemantics of verbal forms and their discourse pragmatic functions.He also proposes a theory of discourse modes for Biblical Hebrew.These discourse modes account for various temporal relationshipsthat are found among successive clauses in Biblical Hebrew. Cook'swork addresses old questions with a fresh approach that is sure toprovoke dialogue and new research.

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Judul Seri

Linguistic studies in ancient West Semitic, 7

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

Winona Lake : Eisenbrauns., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

xvi., 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bahasa

Indonesia

ISBN/ISSN

9781575062563

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Reguler Items

Tipe Media

unmediated

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Subjek

Bible -- Old Testament Language, style -- Hebrew l

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

John A. Cook

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