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Topic, Focus and Foreground in Ancient Hebrew Narratives

by Jean-Marc Heimerdinger

  • Hardback
  • 290 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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For scholars of ancient Hebrew narrative and linguistics

Clarifies complex narrative structures for better understanding

You will gain insights into the art of narrative construction

This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of narrative structures in ancient Hebrew.

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This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements. The various possible forms that a narrative clause can take are classified in terms of their 'topic-comment' and 'focus-presupposition', and it is argued that the way in which these are articulated dictates the word order in the clause. The outcome of the study demonstrates that the traditional binary distinction between foreground and background, based purely on verb forms, is inadequate. A new model is offered showing how foregrounding is achieved by exploiting cognitive structures or by using specific evaluative devices.>

  • Author

    Jean-Marc Heimerdinger

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    August 1999

  • Weight

    568g

  • Page Count

    290

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781841270142

  • ISBN-10

    1841270148

  • Eden Code

    1180905

This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of narrative structures in ancient Hebrew.

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