Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic syntax : : presented to Professsor J. Hoftijzer on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / / edited by K. Jongeling, H.L. Murre-Van ven Berg, and L. van Rompay.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Rompay, Lucas van,; Murre-van den Berg, H. L. 1964-; Jongeling, K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 1991.
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) :; illustrations.

This volume is dedicated to professor Jacob Hoftijzer on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday as well as of his retirement from the chair of \'Hebrew Language and Literature, the Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic\' at the University of Leiden. After a preface by A. van der Heide and a bibliographical list of Hoftijzer's publications, the volume contains 16 essays on syntactical questions in the field of Hebrew and Aramaic. Most of these essays deal with subjects occurring in Hoftijzer's publications. Such are the nominal sentence, the particle 'et' , questions related to clause types as well as to word order and concord within sentences, the status and use of particles and verbal forms. Whereas Biblical Hebrew is discussed in most of the essays, other language forms are represented as well, esp. Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew, Imperial Aramaic, Middle Aramaic and Classical Syriac.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / K. JONGELING , H.L. MURRE-VAN DER BERG and L. VAN ROMPAY -- Acknowledgements / K. JONGELING , H.L. MURRE-VAN DER BERG and L. VAN ROMPAY -- Preface / K. JONGELING , H.L. MURRE-VAN DER BERG and L. VAN ROMPAY -- Bibliography of the Works of J. Hoftijzer / K. JONGELING , H.L. MURRE-VAN DER BERG and L. VAN ROMPAY -- The Status of the Infinitive in Early Piyyut / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- The Use and Non-use of the Particle ’et in Hebrew Inscriptions / G.I. Davies -- Die Inkongruenz im Buch Qoheleth / W.C. Delsman -- Iterative Forms of the Classical Hebrew Verb: Exploring the Triangle of Style, Syntax, and Text Grammar / J.P. Fokkelman -- Some Remarks on the Use of the Finite Verb Form in the Protasis of Conditional Sentences in Aramaic Texts from the Achaemenid Period / Margaretha L. Folmer -- On Direct Speech and the Hebrew Bible / Gideon Goldenberg -- Some Remarks about the So-called Imperative Use of the Infinitive Absolute (Infinitivus pro Imperativo) in Classical Hebrew / J.H. Hospers -- On the VSO Character of Hebrew / K. Jongeling -- Qal/Pe ‘al as the Passive of Hif‘il/Af‘el in Mishnaic Hebrew and Middle Aramaic / C. Meehan -- Die Partikel וϰ im biblischen Hebräisch / Martin Jan Mulder -- The Biblical Hebrew Nominal Clause with a Prepositional Phrase / Takamitsu Muraoka -- Word Order in Different Clause Types in Deuteronomy 1–30 / L.J. de Regt -- Nominal Sentence Negation in Biblical Hebrew: The Grammatical Status of ו’ϰ / P. Swiggers -- Hebrew Syntax: Clause Types and Clause Hierarchy / E. Talstra -- Process and Result and the Hebrew Infinitive: A Study in Linguistic Isomorphism / Yishai Tobin , Be’er Sheva and Tel-Aviv -- Some Reflections on the Use of Post-Predicative hwā in Classical Syriac / Lucas Van Rompay.