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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819072703321

Autore

Penner Ken M.

Titolo

The verbal system of the Dead Sea scrolls : tense, aspect, and modality in Qumran Hebrew texts / / by Ken M. Penner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29844-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Studia Semitica Neerlandica, , 0081-6914 ; ; Volume 64

Disciplina

492.456

Soggetti

Hebrew language - Verb

Hebrew language - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Hebrew Tense and Aspect -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Analysis and Synthesis -- 4 Application of Findings -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Biblical Index -- Dead Sea Scrolls Index -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the intervening period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were written has remained controversial. Penner answers the question of Qumran Hebrew verb form semantics using an empirical method: a database calculating the correlation between each form and each function, establishing that the ancient author’s selection of verb form is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality. Penner then applies these findings to controversial interpretations of three Qumran texts.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910978251903321

Autore

Obrtelova Jaroslava

Titolo

Narrative structure of Wakhi oral stories / / Jaroslava Obrtelová

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Uppsala, : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2017

Uppsala : , : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

250 p

Collana

Studia Iranica Upsaliensia, , 1100-326X ; ; 32

Disciplina

230

Soggetti

Narrative theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The Wakhi people live in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Their original homeland is situated in the Wakhan Corridor in the Badakhshan region, and is divided by the border between southeast Tajikistan and nordeast Afghanistan. They also inhabit the mountainous areas in northern Pakistan and western China. The Wakhi language belongs to the Pamir sub-group of Eastern Iranian languages and is spoken by about 58,000 people in the above-mentioned four countries. The discourse of Wakhi as spoken in Tajikistan has not yet been the subject of analysis. This study is an attempt to identify the features of the fundamental narrative structure of Wakhi oral stories. The analysis of narrative genres recorded in the Wakhan valley in Tajikistan is based on Labov & Waletzky's (1967) and Labov's (1972 and 1997) models. The first part examines the properties of temporal sequence and narrative clauses, and concludes that two sets of narrative tense-aspect forms are found throughout Wakhi oral narratives: simple past tense for eyewitness accounts, and non-past alternating with perfect for non-eyewitness narratives. In the second part, the overall structure of the Wakhi oral narrative is examined, to define the properties of each of the narrative stages (abstract, orientation, complicating action, evaluation, resolution, and coda) and of the transitions between them. A separate chapter is dedicated to evaluation, which may be present explicitly, as a comment made by the



narrator by stepping out of the narrative frame, or as part of the narrative frame, either embedded in direct speech or expressed implicitly using a range of internal evaluative devices. The final part starts a discussion on further aspects of narrative as presented by Labov (1997), namely reportability, credibility, causality, the assignment of praise and blame, and objectivity, that can direct possible future research beyond the narrative frame and into areas of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The study is complemented by a corpus of twenty-one transcribed, glossed, and translated Wakhi stories, representing various narratives genres described in the study.