The Qatal//Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) Verbal Sequence in Semitic Couplets : : A Case Study in Systemic Functional Grammar with Applications on the Hebrew Psalter and Ugaritic Poetry /

The Qatal//Yiqtol (Yiqtol//Qatal) Verbal Sequence in Semitic Couplets : : A Case Study in Systemic Functional Grammar with Applications on the Hebrew Psalter and Ugaritic Poetry / / Silviu Tatu.

The book investigates the qatal//yiqtol (yiqtol//qatal) verbal sequence, previously known as ‘tense shifting’, as found in couplets of the Hebrew Psalter, attempting an innovatory explanation by means of M.A.K. Halliday’s Systemic Theory. This study argues that qatal and yiqtol verbal forms, when pa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Tatu, Silviu,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Ugaritic Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (582 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS AND NOTATIONS
  • 1 .SETTING OUT THE PROBLEM
  • 2. PREVIOUS CONSIDERATIONS OF THE QYYQ VERBAL SEQUENCE
  • 3. THE STRUCTURE OF POETIC VERSE AS PRESERVED BY THE MASORETES
  • 4. SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR: A READER
  • 5. A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR OF STANDARD HEBREW
  • 6. PSALM COUPLETS WITH QYYQ VERBAL SEQUENCE: A SFG INVESTIGATION
  • 7. THE CASE OF UGARITIC POETRY
  • 8. CONCLUSIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • APPENDIX 1: FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE OF HEBREW PSALMS COUPLETS WITH qảṭal / / yiqṭṓl VERBAL SEQUENCE
  • APPENDIX 2: FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE OF HEBREW PSALMS COUPLETS WITH qảṭal / / yiqṭṓl VERBAL SEQUENCE
  • APPENDIX 3: AUTHORITIES CONSULTED FOR VERSE-LINES DELIMITATION IN PSALMS
  • APPENDIX 4: RELATIONS AMONG VERB FORMS, SUBJECT AND MARKED THEME
  • APPENDIX 5: FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE OF UGARITIC COUPLETS WITH QYYQ VERBAL SEQUENCE
  • APPENDIX 6: ARCHAIC HPY COUPLETS WITH QYYQ VERBAL SEQUENCE
  • APPENDIX 7: DISTRIBUTION OF COUPLETS IN PSALMS
  • APPENDIX 8: VARIATIONS OF VERSES WITH THE QYYQ VERBAL SEQUENCE
  • APPENDIX 9: AN OVERVIEW OF VERSE-LINE DELIMITATION IN PSALMS AS PRESERVED BY THE MASORETES AND COMPARED WITH ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN AUTHORITIES
  • INDEX OF SUBJECTS
  • INDEX OF AUTHORITIES
  • INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES
  • INDEX OF UGARITIC REFERENCES

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