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- From: " Reinhard G.Lehmann" <lehmann AT mail.uni-mainz.de>
- To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: Introductory Subordination
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 19:05:18 +0000
Lee R. Martin schrieb:
> Dear Bryan and others,
> I think it would be helpful to have a list of possible ways that a BH
> writer could begin a narrative using subordinate information.
> Does anyone have such a list? X-Qatal is one way. Temporal adverbs is
> another. In several late books, the Infinitive construct seems to
> present the same kind of information as x-qatal, but I haven't studied
> them to see if they come at the beginning of narratives (Ez. 47:7; 2
> Chr. 7:1; 31:1; Ezr. 9:1; 10:1 Esther 2:12; 2:15; Dan.11:34). The usual
> word for "when" (KY) is not used to begin a narrative, but is normally
> used after the clause that it modifies. Just think of how often we use
> the word "when" to begin sections of narrative. A quick search of the
> KJV shows 892 occurrencesof "And when..."; 66 of "Now when..."; 25 of
> "So when..."; and 6 of "Then when...". BH has no such introductory
> word. X-qatal fulfills the need.
You should also be aware of nominal clauses with an 'inverted' word-order
(i.e.
subject-predicate or better: topic-comment) at the beginning, followed by a
verbal
(or another nominal) clause, such as 1 K 1:1; 2 Sam 12:7; 1 K 1:14; 1 K
22:10; 1 Sam
2:18; Gen 37:2.7 etc.
regards
reinhard g.lehmann
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Introductory Subordination,
Lee R. Martin, 02/08/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Introductory Subordination, Reinhard G.Lehmann, 02/08/1999
- Re: Introductory Subordination, Peter_Kirk, 02/08/1999
- Re: Introductory Subordination, Lee R. Martin, 02/09/1999
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