Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb: The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic)

Methodologically, Cook eschews statistical means of validation, pointing out their weaknesses along the way, and draws on diachronic typology and grammaticalization as an 'external' means of validating his theory of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system. These fields have provided a wealth of data on verbal systems and diachronic changes to these systems in the world's languages. For any theory to be valid, it should accord generally with what is known about verbal systems and the ways that they tend to change over time. Given the inescapable diachronic dimension that is part of studying the ancient, composite corpus of the Hebrew Bible, diachronic typology is an especially suitable approach and a particularly useful means of escaping the subjectivity of translation-based statistical approaches.

• | Author: John A. Cook
• | Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• | Publication Date: November 05, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1575062569
• | ISBN-13: 9781575062563