Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms / / Ulf Bergström.

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 s...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Transliteration Key
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Comments on the State of Research
  • Chapter 3. A Theory of Aspect and Tense
  • Chapter 4. Progressive and Resultative Verbs in Biblical Hebrew
  • Chapter 5. Communicative Appeal and the Semantics of the Biblical Hebrew Verb
  • Chapter 6 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index