The verbal system of the Dead Sea scrolls: tense, aspect, and modality in Qumran Hebrew texts
"In Verbs in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Tense, Aspect, or Mood? Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the...
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2015]
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Penner, Ken M., The verbal system of the Dead Sea scrolls] (2018) (Hare, Laura)
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| Series/Journal: | Studia Semitica Neerlandica
Volume 64 |
| Further subjects: | B
Hebrew language
Verb
B FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY ; Arabic B Dead Sea Scrolls B Hebrew language ; Verb B Hebrew language Grammar B Hebrew language ; Grammar B Dead Sea Scrolls Language, style |
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| Summary: | "In Verbs in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Tense, Aspect, or Mood? Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the intervening period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were written has remained controversial. Penner answers the question of Qumran Hebrew verb form semantics using an empirical method: a database calculating the correlation between each form and each function, establishing that the ancient author's selection of verb form is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality. Penner then applies these findings to controversial interpretations of three Qumran texts"-- 1.3 Selected Work on Biblical Hebrew Tense, Aspect, and Mood1.3.1 Absolute Tense Models; 1.3.2 Relative Tense Models; 1.3.3 Aspect Models; 1.3.3.1 The Origin of the Aspect Model; 1.3.3.2 Modern Revisions of the Aspect Model; 1.3.4 Modality Models; 1.3.4.1 Zuber; 1.3.4.2 Hatav; 1.3.4.3 Joosten; 1.3.4.4 Summary of Modality Models; 1.3.5 The Panchronic Model; 1.3.6 Discourse Analysis; 1.3.7 Summary of Selected Work on Biblical Hebrew; 1.4 The Transition from Biblical to Qumran Hebrew; 1.4.1 Developments in Late Biblical Hebrew; 1.4.2 Ben Sira; 1.4.3 Scribal Modernization; 1.5 Summary. 2.2.1.3 Tagging a Sample Text: A Walkthrough2.2.2 Analysis and Synthesis; 2.2.2.1 Most Common; 2.2.2.2 General Tabulation; 2.2.2.3 Conditioned Tabulation; 2.2.2.4 The Forms for Each Function; 2.2.2.5 The Functions for Each Form; 2.2.2.6 Exceptions to the TAM Overlap; 2.2.2.7 Ambiguous Data; 2.3 Summary of Methodology; Chapter 3 Analysis and Synthesis; 3.1 Analysis; 3.1.1 General Tabulation and Most Common Forms; 3.1.1 General Tabulation and Most Common Forms; 3.1.2 Conditioned Tabulation; 3.1.2.1 Conditions Effecting Qualitative Change; 3.1.2.2 Conditions Quantitatively Affecting Correlations. 3.1.2.3 Conditions with No Significant Effect3.1.3 The Unconditioned Clause; 3.1.3.1 Dynamic; 3.1.3.2 Stative; 3.2 Synthesis; 3.2.1 Conversive / Consecutive / Relative Forms; 3.2.2 Arbitration; 3.3 Findings; 3.4 Synchronic Comparison: The Distinctiveness of 4QMMT's Language; Chapter 4 Application of Findings; 4.1 Realized or Future Salvation in the Hodayot; 4.1.1 The Problem; 4.1.2 1QHA 11:20-37 (= Sukenik 3:19-36); 4.1.3 The Essence of the Disagreement; 4.1.3.1 Kuhn's Argument for Present-Realized Salvation; 4.1.3.2 Puech's Argument for Future-Expected Salvation. Chapter 2 Methodology2.1 Methodological Issues; 2.1.1 Encoding; 2.1.2 Synchronic or Diachronic? Language Change; 2.1.3 Empirical or Theoretical? Natural Language Acquisition; 2.1.4 Corpus Selection; 2.1.5 Quantifiable Bidirectional Correlations; 2.1.6 Determining Tense, Aspect, and Mood Using the Event Model; 2.1.6.1 Hebrew Tense: Revell; 2.1.6.2 Hebrew Aspect: Garr; 2.1.6.3 Hatav on Modality; 2.1.6.4 The Methodological Utility of an Event Model; 2.1.7 Reducing the Impact of Equivocal Data; 2.2 Practical Method; 2.2.1 Tagging; 2.2.1.1 Formal Features; 2.2.1.2 Semantic Functions. Preface; List of Tables and Figures; Chapter 1 Hebrew Tense and Aspect; 1.1 Tense, Aspect, and Modality; 1.1.1 The Event Model; 1.1.1.1 Standard View of Tense: Comrie; 1.1.1.2 Standard View of Aspect: Comrie; 1.1.1.3 Standard View of Modality: Palmer; 1.2 Survey of Linguistic Studies of Qumran Hebrew; 1.2.1 Early Studies of 1QIsaa; 1.2.2 Murtonen; 1.2.3 G.R. Driver; 1.2.4 De Vries; 1.2.5 Kesterson; 1.2.6 Thorion-Vardi; 1.2.7 Vegas Montaner; 1.2.8 Smith; 1.2.9 Qimron; 1.2.10 Zuber; 1.2.11 Abegg; 1.2.12 Margain; 1.2.13 Holst; 1.2.14 Geiger. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004298444 |