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An interpersonal sketch of the biblical Hebrew clause

What it is about

A Systemic Functional Grammar description of how the Biblical Hebrew clause carries interpersonal meaning: who gives or demands information or goods-and-services, and how the clause signals it. The author drafts a MOOD system network: indicative (declarative / interrogative, polar or elemental) vs volitive (imperative, cohortative, jussive), with sub-systems for politeness (the particle נָא) and "emphasis" (the long imperative in ־ָה). He analyses dialogues clause by clause into Mood base and Residue, and lists the elements that carry negotiation: interrogative ה־ and wh-words, modal adjuncts (אוּלַי perhaps, אַךְ, אָכֵן certainly), comment adjuncts (אָמְנָה truly), and polarity: לֹא for statements and general prohibitions, אַל with jussive for a specific prohibition, בַּל/בְּלִי in poetry, אֵין for non-existence. He criticises earlier SFG accounts for copying English categories.

Ideas

For Mova

I1–I3 are rules for tools/macula/src/prag.rs (act, hedge and polarity columns; neg-polarity already exists and can split by negator) and text for Discourse: narrative, speech and the shape of a text (politeness) and 05-pronouns-particles.md (negatives, particles). I4 is a feature for tools/macula and a paragraph in 06-verb.md (volitives).

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.1186/s40554-017-0042-8

@inproceedings{racher2017interpersonal,
  title = {{An interpersonal sketch of the biblical Hebrew clause}},
  author = {Racher, Eric Todd},
  booktitle = {Functional Linguistics},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1186/s40554-017-0042-8},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s40554-017-0042-8}
}

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