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The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach by Elizabeth Robar (Hardback, 2014)

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Research on the function and semantics of the verbal system in Hebrew (and Semitics in general) has been in constant ferment since McFall's 1982 work The Enigma of the Hebrew Verbal System. Elizabeth Robar's analysis provides the best solution to this point, combining cognitive linguistics, cross-linguistics, diachronic and synchronic analysis. Her solution is brilliant, invative, and supremely satisfying in interpreting all the data with great explanatory power. Let us hope this research will be quickly implemented in grammars of Hebrew.Peter J. Gentry, Donald L. Williams Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY. In The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew, Elizabeth Robar employs cognitive linguistics to unravel the torious grammatical quandary in biblical Hebrew: explaining the waw consecutive, as well as other poorly understood verbal forms (e.g. with paragogic suffixes). She explains that languages must communicate the shape of thought units: including the prototypical paragraph, with its beginning, middle and ending; and its message. She demonstrates how the waw consecutive is both simpler and more nuanced than often argued. It neither foregrounds r is a preterite, but it enables highly embedded textual structures. She also shows how allegedly amalous forms may be used for thematic purposes, guiding the reader to the author's intended interpretation for the text as it stands.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Brill
ISBN-10
9004283013
ISBN-13
9789004283015
eBay Product ID (ePID)
207674566

Product Key Features

Author
Elizabeth Robar
Format
Laminated Cover, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Linguistics
Type
Textbook

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Leiden
Series Part/Volume Number
78
Series Title
Studies in Semitic Languages & Linguistics
Author Biography
Elizabeth Robar, Ph.D. (2013), University of Cambridge, is Junior Research Fellow in Semitic Languages at Tyndale House, Cambridge, England. She has published multiple articles on biblical Hebrew, particularly challenges raised by modern linguistics to traditional philology.
Date of Publication
18/09/2014
Country of Publication
Netherlands

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