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5. The Perfective Formation Qaṭal in CBH

Chapter of: The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses(pp. 337–394)

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Title5. The Perfective Formation Qaṭal in CBH
ContributorBo Isaksson(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0414.05
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0414/chapters/10.11647/obp.0414.05
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightBo Isaksson
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-17
Long abstractIn chapter 5, the identity of qaṭal as perfective grammatical morpheme is established in Classical Hebrew. It is one of the main basic tenses in the theory of consecutive tenses, and it also supplies the basic verbal morpheme in the construction wa-qaṭal (for this see chapter 5). It is therefore important to investigate the grammaticalisation path of qatal(a) in Semitic. The chapter shows that qaṭal originated from a resultative construction in West Semitic. In its relation to the perfective short yiqṭol (in wa(y)-yiqṭol), which is of Proto Semitic origin, qaṭal is new. But considered on its path of grammaticalisation from a resultative construction it is old in Classical Hebrew. The anterior and past perfective uses dominate in the corpus.
Page rangepp. 337–394
Print length58 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.