The Verbless Clause in Biblical Hebrew : : Linguistic Approaches / / ed. by Cynthia L. Miller.

Thirty years after seminal studies by Francis I. Andersen and Jacob Hoftijzer, members of the 1996 SBL section on Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew gathered to reconsider the topic of the verbless clause in Hebrew. The results are published here, demonstrating the gains made in the interim and providi...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations of Terms and Phrases
  • Abbreviations of Journals and Series
  • Preface
  • Basic Issues
  • Pivotal Issues in Analyzing the Verbless Clause
  • Is There Really a Compound Nominal Clause in Biblical Hebrew?
  • Are Nominal Clauses a Distinct Clausal Type?
  • Syntactic Approaches
  • Word Order in the Verbless Clause: A Generative-Functional Approach
  • A Unified Analysis of Verbal and Verbless Clauses within Government-Binding Theory
  • Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Features in Identifying Subject and Predicate in Nominal Clauses
  • The Tripartite Nominal Clause Revisited
  • Types and Functions of the Nominal Sentence
  • Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches
  • Relative Definiteness and the Verbless Clause
  • Macrosyntactic Functions of Nominal Clauses Referring to Participants
  • Thematic Continuity and the Conditioning of Word Order in Verbless Clauses
  • The Verbless Clause and Its Textual Function
  • Index of Topics
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Scripture