TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moshavi,Adina
TI  - Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause
T2  - Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic Series
SN  - 9781575066226
AV  - PJ4717 .M67 2010 
U1  - 492.4/5 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Bible.-O.T.-Language, style
KW  - Hebrew language-Clauses
KW  - Hebrew language-Word order
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Technical Notes -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1. The pragmatics of preposing -- 1.2. The corpus for the study -- 1.3. Overview of the chapters -- Chapter 2: Word-Order Markedness in Biblical Hebrew -- 2.1. Basic word order: Typological and generative perspectives -- 2.2. Basic word order in Biblical Hebrew -- 2.2.1. The statistical dominance of VSO in Biblical Hebrew -- 2.2.2. Word order in the basic sentence -- 2.2.3. The generative perspective on basic word order in Biblical Hebrew -- 2.2.4. Word order and discourse type -- 2.2.5. Word order in the nonverbal and the participial clause -- 2.3. Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Previous Studies of the Functions of Preposing in Biblical Hebrew -- 3.1. The emphasis-centered model -- 3.1.1. Contrast and contrastive structures -- 3.1.2. Circumstantiality, anteriority, and simultaneity -- 3.1.3. Narrative-unit demarcation -- 3.1.4. Attraction -- 3.1.5. Miscellaneous factors -- 3.1.6. Preposing in direct speech -- 3.1.7. Conclusion -- 3.2. The backgrounding and temporal-sequencing models -- 3.3. The information-structure model -- 3.3.1. Introduction to information-structure concepts -- 3.3.1.1. Theme-rheme/topic-comment -- 3.3.1.2. Topicalization -- 3.3.1.3. Focus and focusing -- 3.3.2. Bendavid: Psychological subject and predicate -- 3.3.3. Bandstra -- 3.3.4. Revell -- 3.3.5. Buth: A synthesis of information structure and foreground-background -- 3.3.6. Gross: A focus-centered model -- 3.3.7. Heimerdinger, van der Merwe, and Shimasaki -- 3.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause and Its Constituents -- 4.1. The clause and the sentence -- 4.2. Finite and nonfi nite clauses -- 4.3. Subordinate and nonsubordinate clauses -- 4.3.1. The relative clause; 4.3.2. The adjunct clause -- 4.3.2.1. The conditional adjunct clause -- 4.3.2.2. The causal adjunct clause -- 4.3.2.3. The temporal adjunct clause -- 4.3.2.4. The purpose adjunct clause -- 4.3.3. The content clause -- 4.3.3.1. Complement of verb -- 4.3.3.2. Complement of preposition -- 4.4. Difficult issues in defining subordination -- 4.4.1. The conjunction ו: Coordinator and subordinator? -- 4.4.2. The ויהי construction -- 4.4.3. Direct and indirect speech -- 4.5. Syntactic classifi cation of the constituents of the clause -- Chapter 5: The Syntax of Preposing and Other Word-Order Constructions -- 5.1. Preposing -- 5.2. Nonpreposed preverbal constituents -- 5.2.1. Clausal adverbs -- 5.2.2. Negative particles: אל and רט -- 5.2.3. Preverbal adjunct clauses -- 5.3. Unmarked preposed constituents -- 5.3.1. Interrogative pro-forms -- 5.3.2. Clause-initial time adverbs and the demonstrative adverb הכ -- 5.4. Complex variants of the preposing construction -- 5.4.1. Preposing with a focusing adverb -- 5.4.2. Double preposing -- 5.5. Other marked word-order constructions -- 5.5.1. Left-dislocation -- 5.5.2. The preverbal constituent connected to its clause with a conjunction -- 5.6. A statistical analysis of word-order constructions in Genesis -- 5.7. Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Focusing and Topicalization -- 6.1. Focusing -- 6.1.1. Constituent, predicate, and sentence focus -- 6.1.2. Types of givenness: Pragmatic presupposition and activation -- 6.1.3. Activation in a model of text comprehension -- 6.1.4. Focusing in Biblical Hebrew -- 6.2. Topicalization -- 6.2.1. Prince's and Birner and Ward's characterization of topicalization -- 6.2.1.1. Marking a partially ordered set relation pertaining to the preposed element -- 6.2.1.2. Marking a focus in relation to a given proposition -- 6.2.2. Topicalization in Biblical Hebrew: A discourse-connective device; Chapter 7: The Pragmatics of Preposing: A Statistical Analysis -- 7.1. Focusing and topicalization in preposed clauses -- 7.2. Focusing and topicalization in complement/adjunct-preposed clauses -- 7.2.1. The residue: Possible instances of focusing -- 7.2.2. The residue: Fixed expressions with preposed word order -- 7.3. Topicalization and focusing in subject-preposing constructions -- 7.3.1. The residue of subject-preposed narrative clauses -- 7.3.1.1. Anteriority -- 7.3.1.2. Simultaneity -- 7.3.1.3. Background information -- 7.3.1.4. New narrative unit or new scene within the narrative -- 7.3.2. The residue of subject-preposed direct speech clauses -- 7.3.2.1. Justification -- 7.3.2.2. Affirmation -- 7.3.2.3. Boasting -- 7.4. Conclusion -- Chapter 8: The Focused Clause -- 8.1. Syntactic description of the preposed constituent -- 8.2. The activated proposition -- 8.2.1. The relation between focused clause and activated proposition -- 8.2.2. The source of the activated proposition -- 8.2.3. Activation versus pragmatic presupposition in the focused clause -- 8.3. A taxonomy of focused clauses -- 8.3.1. Identificational focusing -- 8.3.2. Descriptive focusing -- 8.3.3. Substitutional focusing -- 8.3.4. Additive focusing -- 8.4. Focus of negation -- 8.5. The stylistic use of focusing -- 8.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 9: The Topicalized Clause -- 9.1. Syntactic description of the preposed constituent and its counterpart -- 9.2. The link between the preposed item and its counterpart -- 9.3. The linked segments -- 9.4. Coherence relations between segments linked by topicalization -- 9.4.1. Opposition -- 9.4.2. Similarity -- 9.4.3. Addition -- 9.4.4. Elaboration, summary, and paraphrase -- 9.4.5. Temporal succession -- 9.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Conclusion -- References -- Indexes -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture
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