Biblical Hebrew Grammar visualized

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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