This thesis examines the grammar of Lianhua Gan in both synchronic and diachronic dimensions, covering some important grammatical morphemes and functional categories including demonstratives, the definite article, the perfective aspect, the imperfective aspects (the progressive …
This dissertation applies the linguistic theory of grammaticalization to Biblical Hebrew (BH) prepositions, detailing the origin and evolution of these constructions. In this study, grammaticalization is defined as the change whereby a lexical item or a construction comes in cer…
Verbal hendiadys is described in Biblical Hebrew textbooks and grammars as a verbal construction consisting of two verbs whereby one qualifies the other. Such constructions occur as a sequence of two finite verbs or in a construction in which a finite verb is complemented by an …
This study offers a semantic analysis of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system with respect to the parameters of tense, aspect, and modality. As linguistic understanding of these universal categories increases, the way is opened up to reevaluate past work on the Biblical Hebrew verb…