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A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew: An Attempt to Distinguish between Semantic and Pragmatic Factors (review)

A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew: An Attempt to Distinguish between... A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew: An Attempt to Distinguish between Semantic and Pragmatic Factors (review) Elizabeth R. Hayes Hebrew Studies, Volume 48, 2007, pp. 359-362 (Review) Published by National Association of Professors of Hebrew DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2007.0013 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/439494/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 04:32 GMT from JHU Libraries Hebrew Studies 48 (2007) 359 Reviews Indeed, verse 11a conveys both the explicit subject and the inceptive action from which the content of verse 11b flows (cf. Isa 35:10 at p. 74). Also note that, despite Garr’s translation, the prefixed verb in 11b comes at the end of its clause: literally, “About what I do not know they question me” (yˆn…wlDaVvˆy). Is the paragogic nun at the beginning of this verse in some way motivated by the nun of the object suffix at its end? Finally, Garr’s evaluation of the paragogic nun as “semantically nondesiderative” (p. 71) seems overly re- strictive given his consideration a page before of nonindicative NE;tˆy_yIm syn- tagms. Rather than claim that “the desiderative frame overrides the epistemic mood” (p. 70), it might be more accurate to evaluate the paragogic nun verbs as modally neutral (perhaps http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hebrew Studies National Association of Professors of Hebrew

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A New Understanding of the Verbal System of Classical Hebrew: An Attempt to Distinguish between Semantic and Pragmatic Factors (review) Elizabeth R. Hayes Hebrew Studies, Volume 48, 2007, pp. 359-362 (Review) Published by National Association of Professors of Hebrew DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2007.0013 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/439494/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 04:32 GMT from JHU Libraries Hebrew Studies 48 (2007) 359 Reviews Indeed, verse 11a conveys both the explicit subject and the inceptive action from which the content of verse 11b flows (cf. Isa 35:10 at p. 74). Also note that, despite Garr’s translation, the prefixed verb in 11b comes at the end of its clause: literally, “About what I do not know they question me” (yˆn…wlDaVvˆy). Is the paragogic nun at the beginning of this verse in some way motivated by the nun of the object suffix at its end? Finally, Garr’s evaluation of the paragogic nun as “semantically nondesiderative” (p. 71) seems overly re- strictive given his consideration a page before of nonindicative NE;tˆy_yIm syn- tagms. Rather than claim that “the desiderative frame overrides the epistemic mood” (p. 70), it might be more accurate to evaluate the paragogic nun verbs as modally neutral (perhaps

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Hebrew Studies – National Association of Professors of Hebrew

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