Postagens
Giovanni
LENZI, “Sequences of Verbal Forms and Taxis in Biblical
Hebrew.”
Abstract:
This study presents an empirical collection of Biblical Hebrew verbal forms,
arguing that at one stage of the Hebrew language syntax was based on a
combination of sequences and taxis (the chronological relations between two
“actions”). The suffix
conjugation and the prefix conjugation had different functions in a
past/anterior sequence and in a non-past/non-anterior sequence. In a
past/anterior sequence, the suffix conjugation denoted a co-ordinate element,
while the prefix conjugation denoted a sub-ordinate element. In a
non-past/non-anterior sequence, on the other hand, the prefix conjugation
denoted a co-ordinate element, whereas the suffix conjugation denoted a
sub-ordinate element. This syntax was identical in direct speech, subordinate
clauses, narration and poetry.
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