Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

"It seems to be the agreed interpretation of many languages with pronominal
representation of all core relations on the verb that any noun phrases
expressing core arguments are adjuncts in a kind of apposition with the
bound pronoun and that the bound pronouns bear the grammatical relations."

Barry J. Blake, Case, Cambridge UP, 1993, page 52.


Thus, in a Biblical Hebrew clause with a transitive finite verb, the
"nominative" noun phrase might be analyzed* as "appositional,"  limiting the
subject represented by the bound pronoun.

What analytical benefits might be realized using this approach?

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew 
 
*The traditional approach is to view this "nominative" noun phrase as the
subject of the verb.