Fronting and exhaustive exclusion in Biblical Hebrew

Authors

  • Christo van der Merwe Stellenbosch University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5774/48-0-292

Abstract

Biblical Hebrew scholars struggle to account for about one third of instances of fronting in the Hebrew Bible in terms of a coherent semantic-pragmatic model. I hypothesize that considering fronting as a construction (i.e. a form-meaning pair) that could encode various semantic-pragmatic functions, including “exhaustive exclusionâ€, could be one of the solutions to this challenge.

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Published

2018-01-30

Issue

Vol. 48 (2017)

Section

Part IV: Beyond Germanic and Africa - puzzles ancient and modern

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