Fronting and exhaustive exclusion in Biblical Hebrew
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2017
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Stellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics
Abstract
Biblical Hebrew scholars struggle to account for about one third of instances of fronting in the Hebrew Bible in terms of a coherent semantic-pragmatic model. I hypothesize that considering fronting as a construction (i.e. a form-meaning pair) that could encode various semantic-pragmatic functions, including “exhaustive exclusion”, could be one of the solutions to this challenge.
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CITATION: Van der Merwe, C. 2017. Fronting and exhaustive exclusion in Biblical Hebrew. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 48:219-222, doi:10.5774/48-0-292.
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The original publication is available at http://spil.journals.ac.za
Keywords
Bible. Old Testament -- Language, style, Hebrew language -- Exhaustive exclusion, Hebrew language -- Fronting, Biblical Hebrew
Citation
Van der Merwe, C. 2017. Fronting and exhaustive exclusion in Biblical Hebrew. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 48:219-222, doi:10.5774/48-0-292