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The so-called tripartite verbless clause in Biblical Hebrew consists of two nominal phrases and a pronominal element. Three analyses of the pronominal element have been advanced, each with implications for understanding the structure of the sentence. A first approach has been to view the pronominal element as a copular constituent, which serves only to link the two nominal constituents in a predication (Albrecht 1887, 1888; Brockelman 1956; and Kummerouw 2013). A second approach has been to view the pronominal element as the resumptive element of a dislocated constituent (Gesenius, Kautzsch and Cowley 1910; Andersen 1970; Zewi 1996, 1999, 2000; Jouon-Muraoka 2006). A third approach combines the first and second approaches and is represented by the work of Khan (1988, 2006) and Holmstedt and Jones (2014). A fourth approach views the pronominal element as a “last resort” syntactic strategy—the pronominal element is a pronominal clitic, which provides agreement features for the subject...
The Multifaceted Weqatal in Biblical Hebrew
The grammar of Biblical Hebrew has been the subject of study for many centuries. However, the last two centuries have witnessed the rise of many conflicting opinions concerning its verbal system. It is safe to say that one of the reasons for this plethora of views is the difficulty of explaining the function of the so-called " conversive " or " consecutive " tenses. This is complicated by the fact that expressions such as " waw-conversive, " " waw-consecutive, " or " perfect/imperfect consecutive, " are at times used interchangeably, and at other times contrasted with each other. The present study deals with one of these verbal forms, weqatal. This paper surveys various functions of weqatal, and attempts a coherent explanation of its multifaceted functions that takes its diachronic development into consideration.
The biblical hebrew verb system Vol5
1. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. In the present work, the fragmentation hypothesis allows us to separate, in fact, several distinct uses: episodic, gnomic and semi-gnomic. Here we discuss the semi-gnomic uses. Much has been written about the characterization of the polysemic Y. On the one extreme, it approximates a simple future, say similar to its use in modern Hebrew or late Aramaic. On the other extreme we find aspectual, modal and gnomic uses of quite a different character, and attempts to put all these uses under one simple label have proven, so far, artificial 1 . Particularly unclear is the line which separates between the episodic and gnomic uses of It is extremely difficult to classify these sentences in terms of tnse and aspect; however, a clear criterion separates the last two from the first three: the fact that Y appears on a subordinate clause. In fact, a subordinate conjunctive clause in Y is always semi-gnomic and of a parenthetic/exegetic nature, or describes a parallel ac...