By Scott N Callaham
Along a number of comparable historic languages, Biblical Hebrew possesses infinitive kinds. The rarer of the 2 is the infinitive absolute, for which no analogous constitution exists in smooth translation receptor languages equivalent to English. In learning its use, Hebrew grammarians have lengthy famous that the infinitive absolute frequently looks in modal contexts. although, until eventually the current research this phenomenon has no longer obtained extra scholarly recognition. making use of modern cross-linguistic study on modality, Callaham's examine provides a brand new and entire research of the functionality of the infi nitive absolute in Biblical Hebrew. amassed facts strongly suggest that the mix of an infinitive absolute and a cognate verb is a development expressing verb concentration, such as specialize in any modality found in the cognate verb. Infinitives absolute may also functionality as complete substitutes for finite verbs. consequently, those autonomous makes use of also are hugely modal. via wide-ranging interplay with past learn and exhaustive exam of textual facts, this examine advances new findings at the interaction of modality and infinitive absolute employment within the Hebrew Bible.
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CTL (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), xv, 1. Palmer reworked his presentation of modality significantly between the first and second editions of this work. Therefore it is necessary to cite both editions in the present study. 61 Bernard Comrie, Tense, CTL (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 9; idem, Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems, CTL (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976), 2. 62 Comrie, Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems, 3.
2014, Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. 122 Due to the prominence of divine instruction in the Hebrew Bible,123 deontic modality comprises a significant proportion of the modal uses of the infinitive absolute. “Permissive” and “obligative” expressions follow logically from their titles. 125 Second-person obligatives and imperatives convey such similar ideas that the present study treats them in close connection with each other. 126 Despite granted permission, imposed obligation, or a command, the subject of a deontic utterance may be unable or unwilling to carry through with the proposed action.
2014, Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG, Wiesbaden ISBN Print: 9783447061582 — ISBN E-Book: 9783447190312 Chapter 1: Introduction 38 Figure 10: Modal Particles in the Protasis of Conditional Clauses Protasis Condition is Hypothetical Invalid (has not occurred) Factual Clause 1on-Factual Clause ylwl / alwl wl / awl / wla “if he did not . . “what if . ” or (because he did)” “if only . ” Potential (may have occurred) ~a “if . ” Protasis Condition is Actual Restricts in Time yk casuistic “when . ” Does not Restrict in Time other or none — A small number of modal particles and stock phrases also appear in other clause types.
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