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Sequences of Verbal Forms and Taxis in Biblical Hebrew

What it is about

After reviewing seven approaches to the Hebrew verb (conversive waw, aspect, historical-comparative, text-linguistic and others), Lenzi proposes to read verb forms as sequences, not one by one. There are two kinds of sequence. A past/anterior sequence starts with a suffix form (qatal) or with "x + wayyiqtol" (x being a time phrase, a subordinate clause or the preceding text) and may continue with qatal or (way)yiqtol; a non-past sequence starts with a prefix form (yiqtol) or "x + weqatal". The first verb (or x) fixes the time value for the whole sequence: past perfect, past, present perfect, future perfect for the first kind; present, future, future-in-the-past for the second. Inside a sequence, the forms differ by taxis (Maslov's relation between events): in a past sequence qatal adds a coordinate, independent event and the prefix form (wayyiqtol) a dependent, following one; in a non-past sequence the roles are swapped (yiqtol coordinate, weqatal dependent and following). He claims the same syntax holds in narrative, speech and poetry, and that wayyiqtol ≠ qatal and weqatal ≠ yiqtol. Hypotheticals, infinitives, purpose clauses, participles and deontic yiqtol are left for later.

Ideas

For Mova

I1 and I2 are candidate rules for the timeline in the world reader and for a tense/taxis MISC feature in tools/macula; they are also the most direct operational form of the verb theory for The verb (the aspect–tense debate) and 09-discourse.md (mainline). I3 uses the voice column of tools/macula/src/prag.rs. Each rule comes with its reason (the head verb), as Mova's design requires.

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.5508/jhs.2015.v15.a8

@article{lenzi2015sequences,
  title = {{Sequences of Verbal Forms and Taxis in Biblical Hebrew}},
  author = {Lenzi, Giovanni},
  journal = {Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 15},
  year = {2015},
  doi = {10.5508/jhs.2015.v15.a8},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5508/jhs.2015.v15.a8}
}

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