Back for the Future, Forward for the Past: Tense and Time in Modern Hebrew

This paper points out that Modern Hebrew has metaphoric structuring for time in which the past is seen as something "in front of" the speaker, while the future is "behind" the speaker. It traces this metaphor from Biblical Hebrew to the Rabbinic Hebrew of Talmudic time and sugges...

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Main Author: Newman, Zelda Kahan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2009
In: Hebrew studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 149-157
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