Stand-Alone Nominalizations Formed with ’ ăšer and kî in Biblical Hebrew
The existence of an asseverative function for the particle kî in Biblical Hebrew has been frequently debated due to the fact that this use of kî would occur in matrix clauses, while kî generally forms subordinate clauses of one kind or another (temporal or causal clauses, for example). In practice,...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 41-65 |
| RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | The existence of an asseverative function for the particle kî in Biblical Hebrew has been frequently debated due to the fact that this use of kî would occur in matrix clauses, while kî generally forms subordinate clauses of one kind or another (temporal or causal clauses, for example). In practice, discussions of asseverative kî have focused on attestations of the particle that are unusual or not clearly subordinate. In this paper, I reanalyse these exceptional uses of kî as examples in which kî acts as a nominalizer in a matrix clause, forming a construction that in other languages is often termed stand-alone nominalization. This analysis extends a model for nominalization in Biblical Hebrew that I have applied to ’ ăšer in an earlier paper, a typological model that derives from a recent, wide-ranging study of nominalization in non-Western languages. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-8556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Semitic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgv030 |