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Word Order and Information Structure in Ruth and Jonah: A Generative-Typological Analysis
Ist Teil von
Journal of Semitic studies, 2009-03, Vol.54 (1), p.111-139
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The relationship between syntax and information structure is an increasingly popular subject of research within Biblical Hebrew studies. However, there exist two asymmetries within current approaches taken as a whole: first, the only theoretical linguistic frameworks employed are situated somewhere within the functional approach to linguistics (in contrast with formal, and specifically, generative approaches); second, a Verb-Subject typological classification for Biblical Hebrew is assumed without empirical justification. Yet, the relationship between syntax and semantics, on the one hand, and pragmatics, on the other, is primarily unidirectional; in other words, pragmatics necessarily accesses the syntactic and semantic features of a text, but not vice versa. It stands to reason, then, that any model of information structure can only be as accurate as the syntactic and semantic model upon which it builds. This study presents a typological and generative linguistic analysis of the data in Ruth and Jonah, an Subject-Verb classificiation for Biblical Hebrew and an Subject-Verb based model of information structure.