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7. The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses

Chapter of: The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses(pp. 479–608)

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Title7. The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses
ContributorBo Isaksson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0414.07
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0414/chapters/10.11647/obp.0414.07
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightBo Isaksson
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-17
Long abstractChapter 7 starts using the main components in the verbal system established in the preceding chapters, the short yiqṭol, the long yiqṭol, qaṭal, and the relatively recent construction wa-qaṭal. It also accounts for the active participle qoṭel, which increasingly competes with the long yiqṭol as a finite imperfective morpheme. It reinterprets the theory of consecutive tenses by performing a systematic investigation of clause linking in Classical Hebrew with special emphasis on the discourse level. The chapter presents the fundamental alternation between discourse continuity and discourse discontinuity, and shows that the distinction has a signal, the switch from a wa-Verb clause-type, with the usual natural language connective wa-, to one with a discontinuity clause-type. The traditional hypothesis of a special ‘consecutive’ wa- is therefore unwarranted. This chapter is the centre of the book, and a regeneration of the text linguistics of Classical Hebrew. Since it is mainly concerned with the linguistic reality behind the consecutive tenses, the emphasis lies on the continuity clause-types wa(y)-yiqṭol and wa-qaṭal (both wa-Verb), especially when they form chains of main line clauses that are interrupted by discontinuity clauses.
Page rangepp. 479–608
Print length130 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Bo Isaksson

(author)
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.