LEADER 03868nam 22005653 450 001 9910795546903321 005 20230630002655.0 010 $a9781646021895$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9781646021406 024 7 $a10.1515/9781646021895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6829485 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6829485 035 $a(CKB)20189007400041 035 $a(OCoLC)1290485966 035 $a(OCoLC)1290165930 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_99848 035 $a(DE-B1597)619113 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781646021895 035 $a(EXLCZ)9920189007400041 100 $a20211224d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms 210 1$aUniversity Park :$cPenn State University Press,$d2022. 210 4$d©2022. 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 225 1 $aLinguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic ;$vv.16 311 08$aPrint version: Bergström, Ulf Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms University Park : Penn State University Press,c2022 9781646021406 327 $aIntro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Comments on the State of Research -- Chapter 3: A Theory of Aspect and Tense -- Chapter 4: Progressive and Resultative Verbs in Biblical Hebrew -- Chapter 5: Communicative Appeal and the Semantics of the Biblical Hebrew Verb -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis book provides a new explanation for what has long been a challenge for scholars of Biblical Hebrew: how to understand the expression of verbal tense and aspect.Working from a representative text corpus, combined with database queries of specific usages and surveys of examples discussed in the scholarly literature, Ulf Bergström gives a comprehensive overview of the semantic meanings of the verbal forms, along with a significant sample of the variation of pragmatically inferred tense, aspect, or modality (TAM) meanings. Bergström applies diachronic typology and a redefined concept of aspect to demonstrate that Biblical Hebrew verbal forms have basic aspectual and derived temporal meanings and that communicative appeal, the action-triggering function of language, affects verbal semantics and promotes the diversification of tense meanings. Bergström?s overarching explanation of the semantic development of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system is an important contribution to the study of the evolution of the verbal system and meanings of individual verbs in the Hebrew Bible. Accessibly written and structured for seminar use, Bergström?s study brings new perspectives to a debate that, in many ways, had reached a stalemate, and it challenges scholars working with TAM and the Biblical Hebrew verb to revisit their theoretical premises. Advanced students and scholars of Biblical Hebrew and other Semitic languages will find the study thought provoking, and linguists will appreciate its contributions to linguistic theory and typology. 410 0$aLinguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 606 $aHebrew language$xSemantics 606 $aHebrew language$xTense 606 $aHebrew language$xAspect 606 $aHebrew language$xVerb 615 0$aHebrew language$xSemantics. 615 0$aHebrew language$xTense. 615 0$aHebrew language$xAspect. 615 0$aHebrew language$xVerb. 676 $a492.45/6 700 $aBergström$b Ulf$01502844 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910795546903321 996 $aAspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms$93730860 997 $aUNINA