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6. The Construction Wa-qaṭal in CBH

Chapter of: The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses(pp. 395–478)

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Title6. The Construction Wa-qaṭal in CBH
ContributorBo Isaksson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0414.06
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0414/chapters/10.11647/obp.0414.06
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightBo Isaksson
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-17
Long abstractChapter 6 investigates the wa-qaṭal construction in Classical Hebrew. If qatal was originally a resultative formation, also for wa-qatal we must assume the resultative meaning to be prototypical. This is the reason for its frequent use as apodosis in conditional linkings and as result clause in modal sequences. The precursors of the wa-qaṭal construction with result meaning are attested in early Northwest Semitic. It is shown that wa-qaṭal is a construction in the same sense as the English future construction of to be going to: the constituent parts are analysable, but the meanings of the construction cannot be deducted from its constituents. Proto Hebrew resultative uses of the wa-qaṭal clause-type—in modal sequences and as apodosis—probably became the basis for the new construction wa-qaṭal, which is a distinguishing feature of Classical Hebrew. The interaction of wa-qaṭal as result clause with the long yiqṭol in many domain types developed into an alternation between a discontinuous X-yiqṭol(u) and a continuous wa-qaṭal, both usually expressing future or obligation.
Page rangepp. 395–478
Print length84 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.