| Verb Complements and Relative Clauses in Biblical Hebrew Contributor(s): Givon, T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0890039356 ISBN-13: 9780890039359 Publisher: Undena Publications OUR PRICE: $9.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1974 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Hebrew - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Physical Information: (0.74 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A diachronic development in Biblical Hebrew is studied by which the relative subordinating particle becomes also a verb-complement subordinator. It is argued that this development is internally motivated and is not the result of borrowing; and that the development is not the result of simple-minded analogyRather, two natural mediating channels are discussed which, it is felt, are responsible for this syntactic change. It is also suggested that a similar development may have taken place in Aramaic and Akkadian. |