dear colleagues, i have completed a text (or draft) on the BH verb system, which can be found in
www.researchgate.net/profile/Nir_Cohen/contributions/?ev=prf_act [pls alert me of any problem in downloading] consisting (due to its size) of 7 pdf files. it is a book of about 300 pages. it contains a detailed answer to many comments made here on the topic, especially by rolf furuli. the book is reader-autosufficient but is not easy to read, since it treats as coupled issues which we usually discuss in isolation: verb function, word order, waw-prefixed verb units, and a set of divisions which i find relevant to the bh verb; in fact, more important than both tense and aspect. namely, state vs event, episodic vs gnomic, sequential vs parallel. for this reason: the convoluted nature of the problem, i have avoided to discuss the issue so far. the book represents a limited vindication of the tensual (vs aspectual) position, and esp. of the syntactic school (peckham, blau). it also discusses a limited sense of fragmentation of grammar. it agrees in many points with the new ideas on temporality of carlota smith and veviurko, as well as the panchronic approach of andrason; but the point of view is synchronic. it offers a unified treatment of prose and poetry. each chapter starts with a theoretic discussion and then moves on to examine finer points by way of numerous examples from the OT. i would like to hear your opinions, and to renew the discussions on this topic. best nir cohen _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
