Biblical Hebrew Forum

["David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Dear Clay,

Personally, I think you've identified the big problem with Chomskyian 
grammar and why I don't like it myself: it neglects the distributional 
syntactic data that doesn't fit with the "theory".

But watch that you aren't setting up a straw man with Holmstedt. Prior to 
the Proverbs work he did an analysis of every clauses in *Genesis*. See pp. 
126-159 of his dissertation avalible here:

http://www.uwm.edu/%7Erdholmst/HolmstedtDissertation.pdf

He says the the Proberbs research confirmed his conclusions from Genesis.

Regards,

David Kummerow.

> From: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
> To: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>,<b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Pronoun )nky in Judg. 6:8
> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:55:02 -0700
>
> On 10/5/04 11:27 PM, "David Kummerow" <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually, Holmstedt is one of the few who *does* argue for a S-V order 
> for
> > BH.
>
> That's right, and using Proverbs* as a database. A brilliant move, like
> writing a syntax of the Greek clause based on the choruses of Euripides.
>
> On another front, Holmstedt has taken the notion of "eclectic" to new
> levels. In Fronting** he advocates the marriage of heaven and hell, Prague
> and MIT.  Using Chomsky minimalism (?) for syntax and pragmatics for
> information structure.
>
> The second part of Fronting* on pragmatics is a good read. The first part
> leaves me wondering what Late-Chomsky has to offer for the study of Hebrew
> or any other natural language. Once we get past the terminology problem, we
> find a nice logical model that has a way of ignoring unwelcome data by
> inventing new rules. If we have to choose (do we?) I would rather run with
> S. Dik or even Halliday. But since eclecticism is the current rage, I
> suspect we will have to give MIT a place at the table.
>
>
> greetings,
> Clay Bartholomew
>
> *Word Order and Information Structure in Proverbs
> Robert D. Holmstedt University of Wisconsin ­ Milwaukee
> http://www.uwm.edu/%7Erdholmst/ProverbsSBL2003.pdf
>
> **The Syntax and Pragmatics of ³Fronting² in Biblical Hebrew1
> Robert D. Holmstedt University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> (Draft 1/03)
> http://www.uwm.edu/%7Erdholmst/FrontingSBLMW2000.pdf

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