Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized / / Francis I. Andersen, A. Dean Forbes.

In Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized, Andersen and Forbes approach the grammar of Biblical Hebrew from the perspective of corpus linguistics. Their pictorial representations of the clauses making up the biblical texts show the grammatical functions (subject, object, and so on) and semantic roles (s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2012
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Structure of This Book
  • Global Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction: What We Mean by "Biblical Hebrew," "Grammar," and "Visualized"
  • 2. Text Division
  • 3. Parts of Speech
  • 4. Phrase Marker Concepts and Terminology
  • 5. The Basic Phrase Types of Biblical Hebrew
  • 6. Complex Phrases in Biblical Hebrew
  • 7. Main Clauses
  • 8. Embedded Clauses
  • 9. Classifying Clause Immediate Constituents
  • 10. Semantic Role CICs
  • 11. Introduction to Clause Immediate Constituent Composition, Incidence, and Ordering
  • 12. The אמר Corpus
  • 13. The היה Corpus
  • 14. The עשׂה Corpus
  • 15. The נתן Corpus
  • 16. Makeup of Clause Immediate Constituent Subtypes
  • 17. Computing the Distances between Verb Corpora
  • 18. The Five Quasiverbals
  • 19. Verbless Clauses
  • 20. Non-Tree Phrase Markers
  • 21. Discourse Analysis and Supra-Clausal Structures
  • Appendix 1. Text Choice, Corrections, and Reductions
  • Appendix 2. Our Approach to Linguistics
  • Appendix 3. Alternate Approaches to Positional Syntax
  • Appendix 4. Indirect Object Alternation in the אמר Corpus
  • Appendix 5. Compositional Analysis
  • Appendix 6. Two-CIC VLCs as Novel Sentences
  • Appendix 7. Enhancements to Our Database
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes