Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (2014) 27 pp.
Keywords:
Bible. Language, style
;
Bible. Language, style
;
Hebrew language, Biblical Syntax
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Hebrew language, Biblical Demonstratives
Abstract:
The grammar of ancient Hebrew זֶה straightforwardly accords to cross-linguistically attested patterns of demonstratives. זֶה and its feminine singular and common plural counterparts function primarily as deictic pronouns or deictic nominal modifiers. A small set of examples indicate that some stage of Hebrew witnessed the grammaticalization of זֶה as a relative marker and a copular pronoun. However, for over a century, another function of זֶה has been proposed and become entrenched within Hebrew grammatical analysis—that זֶה follows other Semitic languages in functioning as a “genitive” marker. By addressing all the relevant data, including the two most commonly cited examples of a “genitive” זֶה, Ps 68:9 and Judg 5:5, as well as the comparative Semitic argument, I demonstrate that there are no cogent reasons for assigning to זֶה the role of a “genitive” marker.
Note:
Appeared also in the journal's print version "Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures" 11 (2019) 225-255.
DOI:
10.5508/jhs.2014.v14.a8
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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