Showing posts with label Word order. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Word order. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2015

Word order, summary

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It was shown that preposing for focus in BH relates to an activated but not necessarily presupposed proposition. Despite the fact that BH fo...
Tuesday, May 05, 2015

Praise God for short-term memory

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The essence of the comprehension process is described by Kintsch (1998: 93) as follows: “We comprehend a text, understand something, by buil...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

What to do with that pesky Hebrew vav

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Scholars are divided as to the proper syntactic classification of clauses with a “subordinate” ו. Van der Merwe et al. (1999: §40.8) recogni...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Now we're getting somewhere

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As the emphasis-centered model has largely fallen out of favor, backgrounding/temporal-sequencing and information-structure models dominate ...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Topic? Who knows!

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The various definitions of topic remain problematic. The most accepted conception of topic, the notion of “aboutness,” has thus far resisted...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Huh? Say that in English please

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In conclusion, the backgrounding model and temporal-sequencing models are not applicable to all preposed clauses. The most plausible formula...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Too vague to be useful

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The concept of emphasis has been criticized as overly subjective and vague. It is difficult to say whether an emphasis on the preposed eleme...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Yes, verb first

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In conclusion, basic word order in the typological sense is the pragmatically unmarked order. Basic word order is usually established by the...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Verb-first

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Biblical scholars have long been aware that finite clauses in BH are most frequently verb-first. This fact was noted by the 19th-century bib...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

If it were simple, we wouldn't be arguing about it...

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One of the parameters by which languages can be classified is basic word order. “Basic” is often understood to mean the pragmatically unmark...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Word order

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The VSO language group makes up about 10% of the languages in the world (Carnie and Guilfoyle 2000: 3), including most of the West Semitic l...
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