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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…

This dissertation deals with the Septuagint's translation of the verbs of Chronicles. It slices through two diachronic developments: the development of the Hebrew verbal system and the trend towards a more literal translation of the Bible. Firstly, the way the translator of Chro…

This dissertation suggests that the time reference of verbs in Hebrew poetry can be determined from a combination of form (aspect) and Aktionsart (stative vs. fientive). Specifically, perfective forms of stative verbs have past or present time reference. Perfective forms of fien…

This thesis is concerned with the understanding of the finite verb in the poetry section of the Book of Job. More specifically, it analyzes the yiqtōl, the wayyiqtōl, and the qātal. The analysis uses insights from discourse analysis. It pays attention to the larger (con)text whe…

The present research endeavors to demonstrate that in Biblical Hebrew (BH) different verbs follow different morpho-semantic patterns because the very situations they describe are different in their internal constitution (i.e. their internal aspect). As such, the study is an appl…

In the scope of this study, we argue that there is a condition within the structure of the verbal system of classical Hebrew (hereafter, CH), interstitiality (i.e., gappiness), which broadens the functional role of the hitpa'el . In this work, interstitiality refers to the absen…

The title of this dissertation is "The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach." The thesis is that Biblical Aramaic has a primary verbal form for narration and a primary verbal form for discourse. The qtl form presents the foreground of narration, and the y…