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Actionality (Aktionsart): Pre-Modern Hebrew
(2,122 words)
Actionality (
Aktionsart) is a subcategory of Aspect. The term has been applied to at least two different types of aspect: situation aspect and phasal aspect. Situation or Aristotelian aspect (Binnick 1991:135–49) describes predicates according to their internal temporal contours. The standard taxonomy of situation aspect includes state, activity, accomplishment, and achievement. Phasal aspect describes alterations of the temporal constituency of a situation distinguished in terms of what part of …
Aspect: Pre-Modern Hebrew
(2,374 words)
Aspect refers to the internal temporality of a situation (“internal temporal constituency” [Comrie 1976:3]), in contrast to tense, which refers to a situation’s external temporality (i.e., the temporal location of an event). There are three distinct categories of aspect: (A)
Situation aspect classifies situations by inherent temporal properties, which according to the standard taxonomy include states, acti-vities, accomplishments, and achievements. (B)
Phasal aspect, whose types include inceptive, resumptive, repetitive, and completive, treats alterations …
Verb
(3,072 words)
1. Overview This entry treats the derivational and inflectional features of the Hebrew verb. Hebrew verbs have a root-and-pattern morphology: verbs are derived from a consonantal root in one of seven basic patterns (
binyanim), which combine a syllabic structure with a vowel set, and sometimes a consonantal prefix (Schwarzwald 1996:98). These patterns enable the creation of multiple verbs from a single root and express valency distinctions. Verbal conjugations express tense-aspect-mood (TAM) through syllable and vowel alternations associated with the various patterns (
binyani…