The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface of the Biblical Hebrew Verb Forms

This volume includes two general chapters; the first of these chapters suggests a new analysis of perfectivity in language, showing how the Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode perfectivity. The second deals with modality within the approach of possible-world-semantics, showing that Biblical Hebrew verb forms encode modality as well. The other six chapters concentrate on more specific issues that build on the general chapters: the way Biblical Hebrew anchors world and time, marks segmentation and discourse topic, represents speech and uses the volitives as opposed to the more general modals for performing speech acts. See more