Biblical Hebrew Forum

[decaen AT origin.chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)]

dear friends,

the problem of the hebrew verb was solved in principle 10 years ago in my 
1995 dissertation. the missing elements have been supplied since then, 
including morphological variation and especially the semantics of modal 
coordination. see my papers directory on my site 
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~decaen/

responsible discourse analysis should be leveraged from such a syntax and 
semantics, in my opinion... my approach has a topicalization function 
built in for further investigation.

i am currently undertaking a revision based on these advances. the 
theorectical work on modal coordination is also being prepared for 
linguistic venues as well.

in the meantime, i take umbrage at the idea that only with cook (phd 2002) 
and holmstedt (phd 2002) was the indicative/modal distinction correlated 
directly with word order (!). in JSS 49.2 (2004) p. 265, n. 31, cook makes 
this outrageous claim.

my thesis was *explicitly* that syntactic distinctions correlate with 
modality under a head-movement analysis. i extended this correlation to 
aramaic in my Vetus Testamentum note, 51.3 (2001): 381-385: "The 
Syntactic Argument for the Waw-Consecutive in Old Aramaic".

in short, the priority is mine... it's not clear what they were thinking 
at wisconsin-madison...

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Dr Vincent DeCaen
DeCaen and Associates Research and Communications
135 Bleecker Street, Suite 307
Toronto ON, M4X 1X2
416.927.7667
vince AT decaen.ca
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Information provided is compiled from sources believed to be reliable, but 
no representation or warranty, express or implied, is made by DeCaen and 
Associates as to its accuracy, completeness or correctness.