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Word Order in the Verbless Clause: A Generative Functional Approach

An article by Randall Buth Introduction The basic premise of this paper is as follows: a generative-functional approach to the Biblical Hebrew (BH) nominal (or verbless) clause provides a simple, adequate, linguistic framework. It explains the discontinuities in the data and is able to unite and explain the Lists and ad hoc rules of many [...]

By Gary Alley|2017-06-12T21:31:31-07:00September 29th, 2012|Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew verb, Blog|Comments Off

Mini Quiz: Biblical or Modern Hebrew

In my last post, I posted a video clip of one of my class sessions for beginning biblical Hebrew. One of the accusations sometimes leveled at us who try to teach using Communicative Language Teaching is that we are not using/teaching biblical Hebrew but modern Hebrew. While it is true that "slip-ups" are possible, generally [...]

By Brian Schultz|2017-06-12T21:31:37-07:00September 30th, 2011|ancient language acquisition, Biblical Hebrew, biblical language fluency, Hebrew alive, Hebrew as second language, modern Hebrew, second language acquisition|7 Comments

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