La cartografía del <em>yiqtol</em> corto en hebreo bíblico

Alexander Andrason

doi:10.3989/sefarad.016.001

Authors

Alexander Andrason Stellenbosch University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.016.001

Keywords:

Biblical Hebrew, Verbal System, Semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Grammaticalization

Abstract

This paper provides a dynamic (i.e. cognitive, typological and grammaticalization driven) analysis of short yiqtol in Biblical Hebrew. The author argues that short yiqtol can be understood as a coherent construction if it is modeled as a wave – a synchronic two-dimensional map whose components are related cognitively (as visualized by the x axis) and specified for their degree of prototypicality (as visualized by the y axis). The evidence demonstrates that short yiqtol should be classified as a gram that travels a modal-contamination path. Its contamination originated in a deontic context of speaker modality (both affirmative and negative), subsequently extended to subordinate uses (goal) and future values (first in apodoses and next in other syntactic environments). In Biblical Hebrew, the zone of prototypicality includes deontic senses. The value of goal constitutes the secondary peak of prototypicality. The sense of futurity is non-prototypical.

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