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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2015
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| Series: | Studia Semitica Neerlandica ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
