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8. Did This Book Achieve Its Aim? A Summary

Chapter of: The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses(pp. 609–612)

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Title8. Did This Book Achieve Its Aim? A Summary
ContributorBo Isaksson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0414.08
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0414/chapters/10.11647/obp.0414.08
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightBo Isaksson
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-17
Long abstractChapter 8 concludes that the book has achieved the aim formulated in its introduction. It has explained why wa- has two formal variants (wə- and way-) in the Masoretic text; it has clarified the status of the short yiqṭol (with both past and jussive meanings) as a separate verbal morpheme distinct from long yiqṭol; how long yiqṭol was distinguished from short yiqṭol; why qaṭal came to alternate with the inherited wayyiqṭol; why wa-qaṭal acquired imperfective meanings and came to alternate with the inherited long yiqṭol (< *yaqtulu); and finally it has clarified the linguistic reality behind wa- in the ‘consecutive tenses’. As a corollary it is concluded that the term ‘consecutive’ is uncalled for in the grammatical description of Classical Biblical Hebrew
Page rangepp. 609–612
Print length4 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Bo Isaksson

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Professor Emeritus at Uppsala University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4667-548X

Bo Isaksson (PhD, Uppsala University 1987) is Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University. His research concerns Classical Hebrew text linguistics and Arabic dialectology. In recent years he has initiated two international research projects on clause linking in Semitic languages which have generated the publications Clause Combining in Semitic (AKM 96, Harrassowitz 2015), Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages (AKM 93, Harrassowitz 2014), and Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic: The Case of Arabic and Hebrew (AKM 70, Harrassowitz 2009). These projects have formed the basis for the research presented in this book.