The Quivis Construction in Biblical Hebrew: History of a Syntactic Change

We discuss the evolution of the distributive double noun (quivis) in biblical Hebrew. This construction developed from an asyndeton in Classical Biblical Hebrew (e.g., איש איש) into a syndeton in Late Biblical Hebrew (e.g., איש ואיש), a process that makes it an important diachronic marker in classif...

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Authors: Samet, Nili (Author) ; Mastey, Emmanuel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: American Oriental Society 2023
In: Journal of the American Oriental Society
Year: 2023, Volume: 143, Issue: 4, Pages: 767-784
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Summary:We discuss the evolution of the distributive double noun (quivis) in biblical Hebrew. This construction developed from an asyndeton in Classical Biblical Hebrew (e.g., איש איש) into a syndeton in Late Biblical Hebrew (e.g., איש ואיש), a process that makes it an important diachronic marker in classifying and analyzing these two varieties of the language .
ISSN:2169-2289
Contains:Enthalten in: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.7817/jaos.143.4.2023.ar028