Biblical Hebrew Grammar visualized

Contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 8
Structure of the Book......Page 10
Global Abbreviations......Page 11
1.1 Biblical Hebrew......Page 14
1.2 Grammar......Page 17
1.3 Visualizing Structure......Page 22
1.4 Brief Summary......Page 27
2. Text Division......Page 28
2.1 Words, Segments, and Ligatures......Page 29
2.2 Chunking the Text into Clauses......Page 30
2.3 Brief Summary......Page 32
3.1 Approaches to Parts-of-Speech Specification......Page 33
3.2 The Andersen-Forbes Part-of-Speech System......Page 36
3.3 Part-of-Speech Features......Page 51
3.4 Brief Summary......Page 55
4.1 Phrase Markers Defined......Page 56
4.2 Phrase Markers Characterized......Page 57
4.3 Information Propagation among and within Phrase Markers......Page 58
4.4 The Phrase Marker Creation Process......Page 60
4.5 Exercise: A Test Case Phrase Marker......Page 61
4.6 Brief Summary......Page 62
5.2 Basic and Complex Phrases......Page 63
5.3 Basic Tightly Joined Phrases......Page 65
5.4 Basic Unconjoined Phrases......Page 66
5.5 Basic Structurally Defined Conjoined Phrases......Page 69
5.6 Basic Semantically Defined Conjoined Phrases......Page 72
5.7 Brief Summary......Page 75
6.1 Embedding......Page 77
6.3 Complex Tight Phrases......Page 78
6.4 Complex Unconjoined Phrases......Page 81
6.5 Complex Structurally Defined Conjoined Phrases......Page 88
6.6 Complex Semantically Defined Conjoined Phrases......Page 93
6.7 Brief Summary......Page 97
7.1 The Clause......Page 99
7.2 Configurational versus Nonconfigurational Languages......Page 100
7.3 Complements and Adjuncts......Page 107
7.4 An Alert regarding “Marginal Analyses”......Page 109
7.5 Brief Summary......Page 110
8.1 Nominalized Clauses......Page 111
8.2 Clausal Complements......Page 117
8.3 Adverbial Subordinated Clauses......Page 119
8.4 Embedded Clause-Like Types......Page 121
8.5 Brief Summary......Page 125
9. Classifying Clause Immediate Constituents......Page 126
9.2 Excursus: The Mixed and Full Approaches to Representation......Page 127
9.3 Five Types of Clause Immediate Constituent......Page 130
9.4 On Recognizing CIC-Types......Page 145
9.5 Brief Summary......Page 146
10.1 Semantic Role Repertoire......Page 148
10.2 Representative Approaches to Semantic Role Taxonomy......Page 152
10.3 Semantic Role Classification Criteria......Page 154
10.4 Brief Summary......Page 163
11.1 Clause Immediate Constituent Censuses......Page 165
11.2 Clause Immediate Constituent Incidence Contours......Page 170
11.3 Clause Immediate Constituent Ordering......Page 172
11.4 An Aside on Valency......Page 178
11.6 Brief Summary......Page 181
12.3 Survey of the Non-GF/SR Clause Immediate Constituents......Page 183
12.4 Survey of the GF/SR Clause Immediate Constituents......Page 186
12.6 Core Constituent Ordering......Page 197
12.7 Brief Summary......Page 198
13.2 Single Predicators in Clauses......Page 199
13.3 Heb. היה Verbs as Discourse Transition Markers......Page 204
13.5 Clause Immediate Constituent Incidence Contours......Page 205
13.6 Core Constituent Ordering......Page 206
13.7 Brief Summary......Page 207
14.3 Survey of the Non-GF/SR Clause Immediate Constituents......Page 209
14.4 Survey of the GF/SR Clause Immediate Constituents......Page 210
14.5 Clause Immediate Constituent Incidence Contours......Page 216
14.6 Core Constituent Ordering......Page 217
14.7 Brief Summary......Page 218
15.3 Survey of the Non-GF/SR Clause Immediate Constituents......Page 220
15.4 Survey of the GF/SR Clause Immediate Constituents......Page 222
15.5 Clause Immediate Constituent Incidence Contours......Page 225
15.6 Core Constituents and Their Ordering......Page 226
15.7 Verb Corpora Overview......Page 228
15.8 Brief Summary......Page 229
16.1 The Impermanent CIC Subtype......Page 231
16.2 The Syntactic Isolate CIC Subtype......Page 232
16.4 The Operator CIC Subtype......Page 233
16.5 The Grammatical Function CIC Subtype......Page 234
16.6 The Semantic Role CIC Subtype......Page 236
16.7 Brief Summary......Page 243
17.1 The Hierarchical Lexicon, Verb Classes, and Inter-Clause Distance......Page 245
17.2 Inter-Clause Clustering......Page 249
17.3 Affinities for Two Large Collections of Verb Corpora......Page 251
17.4 Affinities for Corpora Based on Single Binyanim, Etc.......Page 257
17.5 Brief Summary......Page 262
18.1 Standard Biblical Hebrew References on the Five Lexemes......Page 264
18.2 Existentials......Page 266
18.4 Heb. הִנֵּה......Page 270
18.5 Heb. אַיֵּה......Page 271
18.7 Brief Summary......Page 272
19.1 Verbless/Nominal Clauses......Page 274
19.2 The Layered Structure of Verbless Clauses......Page 277
19.3 Elliptic Verbal Clauses......Page 278
19.4 Dealing with Rare CICs and Syntactic Isolates......Page 279
19.5 Atypical Subjects and Subject Complements in Verbless Clauses......Page 281
19.6 Operators and the Lead Zone......Page 284
19.7 Embedding and Verbless Clauses......Page 285
19.8 Indeterminacy in CIC Enumeration......Page 287
19.9 One-CIC Verbless Structures and Clauses......Page 288
19.10 Two-CIC Verbless Clauses......Page 296
19.11 Three-CIC Verbless Clauses......Page 300
19.12 Multi-CIC Verbless Clauses......Page 303
19.13 Insufficiently Investigated Problems in Verbless Structures......Page 304
19.14 Brief Summary......Page 305
20.1 Tangled Edges: Discontinuity......Page 307
20.2 Multiple Mothers: Construct Participles, Distributed Apposition, and Ellipsis......Page 313
20.4 Brief Summary......Page 323
21.1 Introduction to Our Perspectives on Discourse Analysis......Page 325
21.2 Our Phrase Markers as a “Work in Progress”......Page 332
21.3 Supra-Clausal Constituents......Page 335
21.4 Paradoxical Intra-Clausal Discourse Units......Page 337
21.5 Brief Summary......Page 338
A1.1 The Choice of a Manuscript......Page 339
A1.2 Correcting “Obvious Errors” in L......Page 341
A1.3 Reducing the Text......Page 343
A2.1 Traditional Approaches to the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew......Page 347
A2.2 Phrase-Structure Grammars......Page 351
A2.3 The Autonomy of Syntax—Not......Page 352
A3.2 The Argument Structure Approach to Positional Syntax......Page 354
A3.3 Factors That Determine or Affect CIC Position......Page 355
A4.2 The Jenni and Malessa Explanations: Counterexamples......Page 357
A5.2 Solution......Page 359
A5.3 Practicalities......Page 365
Two-CIC VLCs as Novel Sentences......Page 366
A7.2 Source Ascription......Page 367
A7.3 Text Types......Page 369
Glossary......Page 372
Biblio......Page 384
Scripture index......Page 391
Index......Page 397