Pete Bekins (בלשנות Balshanut) has provisionally completed—in only about one month’s time—an eight-part teaching and learning series on “A Discourse Approach to the BH Verbal System.”
The series does not have its own unique tag, though a WordPress search for Pete’s tag “Semitic Verbal System” gets you the series and lots of other Balshanut posts in that larger vein. So, I link here each of the posts, for anybody who missed some or who would like to start from the beginning.
- Part 8: Conclusion
- Part 7: Direct Speech
- Part 6: Turning Toward Poetry
- Part 5: Beyond Narrative
- Part 4: Exceptions and Refinements
- Part 3: Grounding in BH Narrative
- Part 2: Foreground and Background
- Part 1: A Discourse Approach to the BH Verbal System
Take your time and have fun. I’ll be making sure that my intermediate Hebrew students are aware of the series.
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Thanks for indexing it for me. I wasn’t planning on doing 8 parts so I didn’t create a special tag when I started
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Brooke, thanks so much for posting this, it’s great so far. And thanks to Peter for writing it as well. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading (and little writing) in and around modern linguistic approaches to BH, and grounding was one of those concepts that I kept wanting to do more with but couldn’t (my work just took me in another direction).
Since you are both clearly BH nerds and linguistics nerds here’s a couple of questions…which general linguists and which BH linguists do you find most helpful and convincing? Do you have a preferred approach linguistically (pragmatics, generative-semantics, sociolinguistics, etc)?
I’ve been away a lot, so I haven’t been able to keep up with these postings. This is a helpful overview!
Pete, I’m off for another two weeks, but when I get back you can be expecting comments from me