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  • From: "Schling" <jwinger AT westmont.edu>
  • To: b-hebrew
  • Subject: Zevit: The Anterior Construction in Classical Hebrew
  • Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:47:13


Hello

I looked through the archives to see if there had been any discussion about
Ziony Zevit's book _The Anterior Construction in Classical Hebrew_ and
could only find Matthew Anstey's post from 9/27/99. I am wondering if
anybody has read Zevit's book and would be willing to comment on it,
specifically his argument that the BH verb system was tensed and that the
tenses were discerned by the accent. I am also very curious about a
question which Matthew Anstey asked in his post:

I am particularly interested in whether Zevit's claim, quoting Bybee, is
true, that the "anterior does not occur in languages that do not have other
tense distinctions marked inflectionally." (This is based on Bybee's
analysis of languages across the world.) If this premiss is true, and if
Hebrew clearly has grammaticised anterior constructions, then is this not
an unassailable argument that BH has tensed verb forms?

Finally, I am wondering if anybody knows of any reviews of Zevit's work.
Thanks in advance for any help which you can provide.

Sincerely,

Justin Winger
jwinger AT westmont.edu




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