The Sentence in Biblical Hebrew

✍ Scribed by Francis I. Andersen

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Series: Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 231
• Edition: 2nd printing. Reprint 2012
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
THE TRANSLITERATION OF HEBREW
1. INTRODUCTION
1.0. Traditional Grammar
1.1. Discourse Grammar
Notes
2. THE SENTENCE IN HEBREW
2.0. Definition of Sentence
2.1. The Clause as a Sentence Element
2.2. Sentence Types
2.3. Complex Sentences
2.4. Compound Sentences
2.5. Relationships Between Sentence Types
2.6. Surface Grammar and Deep Grammar
Notes
3. APPOSITION SENTENCES
3.0. Deep Grammar of Apposition
3.1. Surface Grammar of Apposition
3.2. Verbal Repetition in Apposition
3.3. Synonymous Apposition
3.4. Epic Repetition in Apposition
3.5. Apposition for Emphasis
3.6. Resumption and Distribution in Apposition
3.7. Explanation in Apposition
3.8. Curses and Blessings
3.9. Multiple Apposition
3.10. Apposition Instead of Other Constructions
Notes
4. COORDINATION
4.0. Kinds of Coordination
4.1. Upper-level Coordination
4.2. Paragraph-level Coordination
4.3. Sentence-level Coordination
4.4. Inclusive and Exclusive Coordination
4.5. Inter-clausal Relationships in Precative and Predictive Discourse
4.6. Summary
4.7. Back-looping (Rank-shifting)
4.8. Alternative Surface Realizations
4.9. Empirical Testing
Notes
5. CIRCUMSTANTIAL CLAUSES
5.0. Introduction
5.1. Episode-marginal Circumstantial Clauses
5.2. Sentence-level Circumstantial Clauses
5.3. Pseudocircumstantial Sequential Clauses
5.4. Pseudosequential Circumstantial Clauses
5.5. Circumstantial Clauses as Alternatives to Noncircumstantial Constructions
6. ADJUNCTIVE CLAUSES
6.0. Structure
6.1. Function
6.2. Adjunctive Clauses Used Circumstantially
6.3. Other Forms
Notes
7. SURPRISE CLAUSES
7.0. Form
7.1. Participant Perspective
7.2. Dream Reports
7.3. Other Uses
7.4. Other Forms
8. CONJUNCTIVE SENTENCES
8.0. The Form of a Conjunctive Sentence
8.1. Declarative Conjunctive Sentences
8.2. Distributive Coordination
8.3. Conjoined Precative Clauses
8.4. Negation in Conjunctive Sentences
8.5. Conjoined Prohibitions
8.6. Coordination of Questions
8.7. Conjoining of Surprise Clauses
8.8. Coordination of Subordinate Clauses
8.9. Coordination of Relative Clauses
8.10. Conjunctive Sentences Instead of Other Constructions
9. CHIASTIC SENTENCES
9.0. The Form of Inter-clause Chiasmus
9.1. The Surface Grammar of Chiastic Sentences
9.2. The Deep Grammar of Chiasmus
9.3. Chiasmus in Narrative Prose
9.4. Grammatical Aspects of Chiasmus
9.5. Chiasmus in Predictive Discourse
9.6. Chiasmus in Precative Discourse
9.7. Chiasmus in Prohibition
9.8. Incompletely Formed Chiasmus
9.9. Discontinuous Chiastic Sentences
9.10. Chiasmus as a High-level Node
9.11. Chiastic Sentence as Nucleus
9.12. Chiasmus a Distortion
9.13. Sequential Clauses in Chiasmus
Notes
10. DISJUNCTIVE SENTENCES
10.0. Disjunctive Coordination
10.1. Phrase-level Disjunction
10.2. Disjunctive Coordination above Phrase Level
10.3. Disjunctive Questions
10.4. Disjunctive Realization of Conjunctive Relationships
10.5. Conjunctive Realization of Disjunctive Relationships
Notes
11. CONTRASTIVE SENTENCES
11.0. The Degree of Contrast
11.1. Contrastive Sentences and Other Constructions
11.2. Contrast with Pronoun Subjects
11.3. Contrast with Nouns as Subjects
11.4. Contrast with Objects
11.5. Other Items in Contrast
11.6. Exceptions
11.7. Contrast Sentence with Asyndeton
12. INCLUSIVE SENTENCES
12.0. Inclusion and Addition
12.1. Phrase-level Coordination Using GAM
12.2. Trans-sentence Inclusive Phrases
12.3. Double Coordination
12.4. Inclusive Coordination and Sentence Types
12.5. Inclusive Coordination and Negation
12.6. The Implication of Inclusive Coordination
12.7. Noninclusive Uses of GAM
12.8. GAM not a Conjunction
12.9. The Hierarchical Significance of GAM
Notes
13. EXCLUSIVE SENTENCES
13.0. Signals of Exclusive Relationships
13.1. The Form of the Exclusive Relationship
13.2. Phrase-level Exclusion
13.3. Trans-sentence Exclusive Phrases
13.4. Exclusive Sentences
13.5. Exclusive Forms used for Antithetical Relationships
13.6. Exclusive Forms Used for Coordination or Apposition
13.7. Exclusive Relationships Realized by Antithetical Forms
13.8. Phrase ‘Adverb’ and Clause ‘Adverb’
13.9. Limitative ‘Adverbs’
13.10. Limitative Clause-modifier
13.11. Summary
Notes
14. ANTITHETICAL SENTENCES
14.0. Antithesis between Clauses
14.1. The Form of Antithetical Sentences
14.2. Antithesis with Implicit Negation
14.3. Antithesis by Means of Antonyms
14.4. Antithesis by Negation
14.5. Antithesis After Negation
14.6. Antithetical Questions
14.7. Antithesis in Apposition
Notes
15. SURFACE REALIZATIONS AND DEEP RELATIONSHIPS
15.0. Introduction
15.1. Alternative Surface Realizations
15.2. Limitations in Alternative Realizations
15.3. Juxtaposition and Concatenation
15.4. Coordination and Subordination
INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES