The progressive-imperfective path from Standard to Late Biblical Hebrew

The Progressive and the Imperfective

Formal semantics constitutes the framework of the research presented here, and the aim is to provide a solution to the imperfective paradox; i.e. explain why \Max was running" entails \Max ran", but \Max was running home" does not entail \Max ran home". This paper is divided into two parts. In Part I we evaluate what I will call the Eventual Outcome Strategy for solving the imperfective paradox...

Mood/Modality in Biblical Hebrew Verb Theory

Mood/Modality in Biblical Hebrew Verb Theory John A. Cook Eisenbrauns [email protected]

The Progressive and the Imperfective Paradox

Biblical Hebrew – Fossil of an Extinct Proto-Language

Scientific enterprise is a part and parcel of the contemporaneous to it general human cultural and, even more general, existential endeavor. Thus, the fundamental for us notion of evolution, in the modern sense of this characteristically Occidental term, appeared in the 19-th century, with its everything pervading, irreversible cultural and technological change and the existential turmoil. Simi...

Non-phonetic Conditioning of Sound Change and Biblical Hebrew

THE TIME-HONORED discussion of the problem of the non-phonetic conditioning of sound change has been intensified through the recent emergence of generative phonology. Whereas the orthodox neogrammarian position, as well as that of "autonomous" phonemics, only allow for strict phonetic conditioning of sound change, "systematic" generative phonology posits that phonetic changes may also take plac...