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Cartography of Short yiqtol in Biblical Hebrew

Andrason, Alexander (2016)

CITATION: Andrason, A. 2016. Cartography of Short yiqtol in Biblical Hebrew. Sefarad, 76(1):7-53, doi:10.3989/sefarad.016.001.

The original publication is available at http://sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/sefarad

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper provides a dynamic (i.e. cognitive, typological and grammaticalization driven) analysis of short yiqtol in Biblical Hebrew. The author argues that short yiqtol can be understood as a coherent construction if it is modeled as a wave – a synchronic two-dimensional map whose components are related cognitively (as visualized by the x axis) and specified for their degree of prototypicality (as visualized by the y axis). The evidence demonstrates that short yiqtol should be classified as a gram that travels a modal-contamination path. Its contamination originated in a deontic context of speaker modality (both affirmative and negative), subsequently extended to subordinate uses (goal) and future values (first in apodoses and next in other syntactic environments). In Biblical Hebrew, the zone of prototypicality includes deontic senses. The value of goal constitutes the secondary peak of prototypicality. The sense of futurity is non-prototypical.

ESPAÑOL RESUMEN: En el presente artículo, el autor ofrece un análisis dinámico (cognitivo, tipológico y de gramaticalización) del yiqtol corto en hebreo bíblico. El gram, con toda su variedad de valores, se puede presentar como un fenómeno coherente por medio de una onda (un mapa sincrónico bidimensional cuyos valores están relacionados cognitivamente) con zonas de mayor o menor prototipicalidad y, por eso, semantización. El yiqtol corto se define como un gram de camino modal por contaminación, contaminado en el contexto deóntico de hablante (afirmativo y negativo), extendido después a usos subordinados de finalidad y, a continuación, empleado como futuro (primero apodótico y luego independiente). La zona de prototipicalidad corresponde a usos deónticos. El valor de finalidad constituye el pico de prototipicalidad secundario, mientras que el significado de futuro es minoritario.

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