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Eisenbrauns Fronted Structures in Biblical Hebrew: Economy and Iconicity

Name: Fronted Structures in Biblical Hebrew: Economy and Iconicity
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"Biblical Hebrew frequently departs from its expected verb-initial order, employing fronted structures in which a constituent precedes the finite verb. This book argues that linguistic economy and iconicity can explain the morphosyntactic strategy of fronting at both sentence and discourse levels. Investigating fronted structures across the Former Prophets (Joshua–2 Kings), Ian Atkinson develops an overarching theoretical framework that integrates information structure (topic and focus), information status, and insights from cognitive linguistic theory. He demonstrates how fronting participates in common ground management and guides the development of discourse. The study also incorporates the previously underexplored category of theticity, showing that verb–subject inversion commonly encodes thetic sentences cross-linguistically. In contrast to earlier scholarship, often confined to a single biblical book and to either prose or poetry, this volume analyzes 1,777 fronted clauses across both genres, from the archaic poetry of Judges 5 to extended narrative discourse. By testing the framework against such a large and varied corpus, the book exposes the explanatory limits of earlier models and achieves greater descriptive precision. This volume unites analysis of information structure and information status, accounting for larger discourse patterns, as well as demonstrating how poetic patterns of constituent order also inform cognition and discourse structure. Drawing on the cognitive-linguistic principles of economy and iconicity, it offers a unified account of constituent order in Biblical Hebrew. It will be essential reading for graduate students and scholars of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic linguistics."

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Brand: Eisenbrauns
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1646023862
Category: Books > Subjects > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 October 2026
Listed Since: 13 April 2026

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