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Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms

Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms

Bergström, Ulf

Hardcover

Series: Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic

HebrewLinguisticsBible Studies

ISBN10: 1646021401
ISBN13: 9781646021406
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: Mar 22 2022
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

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 scholarly literature, Ulf Bergström gives a comprehensive overview of the semantic meanings of the verbal forms, along with a significant sample of the variation of pragmatically inferred tense, aspect, or modality (TAM) meanings. Bergström applies diachronic typology and a redefined concept of aspect to demonstrate that Biblical Hebrew verbal forms have basic aspectual and derived temporal meanings and that communicative appeal, the action-triggering function of language, affects verbal semantics and promotes the diversification of tense meanings. Bergström's overarching explanation of the semantic development of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system is an important contribution to the study of the evolution of the verbal system and meanings of individual verbs in the Hebrew Bible.

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