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The Biblical Hebrew infinitive

What it is about

Doron argues that the infinitive absolute and infinitive construct are two allomorphs of one infinitive, and that this infinitive is a verb heading a clause, not a noun or verbal noun as both the medieval and European grammatical traditions held. The infinitive takes the same functional categories as finite verbs (Mood, Tense, a combined Aspect/Modality), and their combinations give three infinitival clauses beside the finite one: Nom-inf, the bare infinitive absolute as an irrealis root clause with imperative force ("Remember the Sabbath day", Exod 20:8); Poss-inf, an infinitive construct with a possessive subject suffix or noun, usually a temporal adverbial after בְּ/כְּ ("when we remembered Zion"); and PRO-inf, an infinitive with לְ and no overt subject, used for purpose or as complement of aspectual and modal verbs. Clitics follow from the features: finite verbs take subject and object clitics, PRO-inf takes object clitics only (לְהוֹצִיאָם), Poss-inf takes a subject suffix but its object must be a separate אֹתָם (בְּהוֹצִיאִי אֹתָם, not *בְּהוֹצִיאִים), Nom-inf takes neither. The infinitive assigns accusative case (אֵת), unlike nouns. In late Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, event nouns replace Poss-inf (Kings לִמְלֹךְ שְׁלֹמֹה vs Chronicles with מַלְכוּת).

Ideas

For Mova

I1–I3 belong in The verb (infinitives) and 08-syntax.md (infinitives), and in the head rules and FEATS of tools/macula, measured against PTNK. I4 is a candidate for the infabs rule in tools/macula/src/prag.rs (check whether the existing rule already covers it). I5 is a count for 11-mishnaic.md and 12-biblical-mishnaic-modern.md.

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4749001

@inproceedings{doron2020biblical,
  title = {{The Biblical Hebrew infinitive}},
  author = {Doron, Edit},
  booktitle = {Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)},
  year = {2020},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4749001},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4749001}
}

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