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Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb - The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew (Hardcover)
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Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb - The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew (Hardcover)
Series: Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic
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In this book John Cook interacts with the range of approaches to
the perennial questions on the Biblical Hebrew verb in a
fair-minded approach. Some of his answers may appear deceptively
traditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification of
the qatal-yiqtol opposition. However, his approach is distinguished
from the traditional approaches by its modern linguistic
foundation. One distinguishing sign is his employment of the phrase
"aspect prominent" to describe the Biblical Hebrew verbal system.
As with almost any of the world's verbal systems, this
aspect-prominent system can express a wide range of aspectual,
tensed, and modal meanings. In chap. 3, he argues that each of the
forms can be semantically identified with a general meaning and
that the expressions of specific aspectual, tensed, and modal
meanings by each form are explicable with reference to its general
meaning. After a decade of research and creative thinking, the
author has come to frame his discussion not with the central
question of "Tense or Aspect?" but with the question "What is the
range of meaning for a given form, and what sort of contextual
factors (syntagm, discourse, etc.) help us to understand this range
in relation to a general meaning for the form?" In chap. 4 Cook
addresses long-standing issues involving interaction between the
semantics of verbal forms and their discourse pragmatic functions.
He also proposes a theory of discourse modes for Biblical Hebrew.
These discourse modes account for various temporal relationships
that are found among successive clauses in Biblical Hebrew. Cook's
work addresses old questions with a fresh approach that is sure to
provoke dialogue and new research.
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