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Modern linguistics is a relative newcomer in the scientific world, and text-linguistics, or discourse analysis, is one of its youngest disciplines. This fact has inclined many toward skepticism of its value for the Hebraist, yet much benefit is thereby overlooked. In this work, the author examines recent contributions to Hebrew text-linguistics by Niccacci, Andersen, Eskhult, Khan, and Longacre,...

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION AND EXAMINATION OF SEVERAL RECENT PUBLICATIONS 1.1 Introduction to the Content and Goals of this Volume In this work, I will examine several currently available works on Classical Hebrew,1 explain a particular theory of linguistics and its derived approach to the data, examine a series of texts, and draw conclusions from all the above. The lynch-pin holding all this together is the question of the role(s) of different types of clauses in different types of texts.2 My goal is
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