The Representation of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: A Linguistic Analysis

addressee adjacency pair appears Biblical Hebrew Biblical Narrative central configuration Chinookan clitic command context conversation corpus David deictic center deixis Deut dialogue diegetic direct and indirect direct quotation discourse-pragmatic functions embedded within direct example Exod free indirect discourse gerundive Grammar grammaticalization Hiphil iaxV indicate indirect speech infinitival complement infinitive construct instances introduce direct speech Israel Israelites itfx Josh Judg king Lachish linguistic markedness marker matrix clause matrix verb metapragmatic verbs Moses multiple-verb frames narrator nax'i Niphal Note noun phrase occurs original locution Piel pragmatic prepositional phrase pronominal reference pronouns prototypical dialogic quotative frame reported speech reported speech event reporting speaker represented response second pair-part semantics servant single-verb frames speak speech event speech in Hebrew speech verb spoke Studies syntactic syntax tion tive true infinitive Ugaritic unmarked verb frames verb to say word YHWH