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The Semantics of Aspect and Modality : Evidence from English and Biblical Hebrew.

"The semantics of aspect and modality" will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew. Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hatav, Galia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 34.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The semantics of aspect and modality" will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew. Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed areas of language. Similarly, the semantics of the verbal system in biblical Hebrew has been investigated since the Middle Ages. Galia Hatav provides extensive critical overviews of research in both areas, and suggests a new approach for analyzing the biblical Hebrew verb system, showing it to be tenseless. The o.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (234 pages)
ISBN:9789027281968
9027281963
1283280396
9781283280396
ISSN:0165-7763 ;