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Document Details : Title: Emphasis or Assertion? Subtitle: Remarks on the Paronomastic Infinitive in Hebrew Author(s): GZELLA, Holger Journal: Bibliotheca Orientalis Volume: 67 Issue: 5-6 Date: 2010 Pages: 488-498 DOI: 10.2143/BIOR.67.5.2071221 Abstract : Yoo-Ki Kim’s recent dissertation challenges the widely-held view that the so-called paronomastic infinitive in Biblical Hebrew acts as a marker of emphasis. Rather, the author suggests (as some others have done before him) that this construction is related to the notion of assertion, i.e., the speaker’s belief or conviction that the proposition is true. The present review article evaluates Kim’s synchronic analysis; it also attempts to supplement his somewhat cursory discussion of inner-biblical developments and the situation in other Semitic languages. |
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