RT Article
T1 The Quivis Construction in Biblical Hebrew: History of a Syntactic Change
JF JAOS
VO 143
IS 4
SP 767
OP 784
A1 Samet, Nili
A1 Mastey, Emmanuel
A2 Mastey, Emmanuel
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1878005200
AB We discuss the evolution of the distributive double noun (quivis) in biblical Hebrew. This construction developed from an asyndeton in Classical Biblical Hebrew (e.g., איש איש) into a syndeton in Late Biblical Hebrew (e.g., איש ואיש), a process that makes it an important diachronic marker in classifying and analyzing these two varieties of the language .
DO 10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.ar028