Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized: (6 Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic)

In Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized, Andersen and Forbes approach the grammar of Biblical Hebrew from the perspective of corpus linguistics. Their pictorial representations of the clauses making up the biblical texts show the grammatical functions (subject, object, and so on) and semantic roles (surrogate, time interval, and so on) of clausal constituents, as well as the grammatical relations that bind the constituents into coherent structures. The book carefully introduces the Andersen-Forbes approach to text preparation and characterization. It describes and tallies the kinds of phrases and clauses encountered across all of Biblical Hebrew. It classifies and gives examples of the major constituents that form clauses, focusing especially on the grammatical functions and semantic roles. The book presents the structures of the constituents and uses their patterns of incidence both to examine constituent order (“word order”) and to characterize the relations among verb corpora. It expounds in detail the characteristics of quasiverbals, verbless clauses, discontinuous and double-duty clausal constituents, and supra-clausal structures. The book is intended for students of Biblical Hebrew at all levels. Beginning students will readily grasp the basic grammatical structures making up the clauses, because these are few and fairly simple. Intermediate and advanced students will profit from the detailed descriptions and comparative analyses of all of the structures making up the biblical texts. Scholars will find fresh ways of addressing open problems, while gaining glimpses of new research approaches and topics along the way.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: What We Mean by “Biblical Hebrew,” “Grammar,” and “Visualized” 2. Text Division 3. Parts of Speech 4. Phrase Marker Concepts and Terminology 5. The Basic Phrase Types of Biblical Hebrew 6. Complex Phrases in Biblical Hebrew 7. Main Clauses 8. Embedded Clauses 9. Classifying Clause Immediate Constituents 10. Semantic Role CICs 11. Introduction to Clause Immediate Constituent Composition, Incidence, and Ordering 12. The אמר Corpus 13. The היה Corpus 14. The עשה Corpus 15. The נתן Corpus 16. Makeup of Clause Immediate Constituent Subtypes 17. Computing the Distances between Verb Corpora 18. The Five Quasiverbals 19. Verbless Clauses 20. Non-Tree Phrase Markers 21. Discourse Analysis and Supra-Clausal Structures Appendix 1. Text Choice, Corrections, and Reductions Appendix 2. Our Approach to Linguistics Appendix 3. Alternate Approaches to Positional Syntax Appendix 4. Indirect Object Alternation in the אמר Corpus Appendix 5. Compositional Analysis Appendix 6. Two-CIC VLCs as Novel Sentences Appendix 7. Enhancements to Our Database Glossary Bibliography Indexes Index of Authors Index of Scripture Index of Topics