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3. The Short Yiqṭol as a Separate Verbal Morpheme in CBH

Chapter of: The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses(pp. 155–292)

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Title3. The Short Yiqṭol as a Separate Verbal Morpheme in CBH
ContributorBo Isaksson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0414.03
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0414/chapters/10.11647/obp.0414.03
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightBo Isaksson
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-17
Long abstractChapter 3 discusses the short yiqṭol as a separate verbal morpheme in Classical Hebrew. The theory of consecutive tenses hides the true nature of the short yiqṭol. On one hand it is put out of sight as ‛jussive’, as if jussive were not also a yiqṭol; on the other, the indicative short yiqṭol is put out of sight, concealed in one of the principal verb forms, that of wa(y)-yiqṭol. It is shown that the short yiqṭol, with both meanings, is inherited from Proto Semitic. It has cognates in other ancient Semitic languages like Akkadian (iprus), Amorite, Ugaritic, Amarna Canaanite, and the most ancient inscriptions of Aramaic. Even in the archaic Hebrew poetry, the short yiqṭol could function as a ‘free’ narrative verb form, without the restriction to a discourse continuity clause-type, wa(y)-yiqṭol. The impression given by the theory of consecutive tenses, that there is only one yiqṭol, is false. It is typologically false, and also false in the synchronic state of Classical Hebrew. The short yiqṭol is distinctively short in some positions but not in others. Classical Hebrew was able to cope with the partial homonymy between the short yiqṭol and the long yiqṭol by a restriction of word order.
Page rangepp. 155–292
Print length138 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.