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Meeting Program Units

2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/21/2015
Meeting Ends11/24/2015

Call for Papers Opens: 12/17/2014
Call for Papers Closes: 3/4/2015

Requirements for Participation

Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Section solicits papers for three sessions and a joint session with NAPH. The first session will be non-thematic; papers that address the study of Biblical Hebrew using a well-articulated linguistic method are welcome, and those that apply linguistics to particular Biblical Hebrew texts are especially encouraged. The second session will be topical focussing on "the syntax of edge constructions", including but not limited to such phenomena as left-dislocation, right-dislocation, fronting (topicalization), extraposition, other word-order shifts and pronominal resumption. The third session will be a second topical session considering topics of VP argument structure such as object marking, transitivity, ergativity, case marking, valency and the like. Papers are also invited for a joint topical session with the NAPH on Editing the Hebrew Bible (the growth and change of biblical texts) and Historical Linguistics (a topic addressed in the recent volume by Robert Rezetko and Ian Young, Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew: Steps Towards an Integrated Approach (Atlanta: SBL, 2014)) . Papers should discuss how the growth and change of biblical texts can challenge and contribute to historical linguistics. Papers for all sessions should be grounded in sound linguistic theory and applied to a set of texts in order to further our understanding of the phenomenon under discussion. Please submit your abstract online. Submitters who have not presented a paper previously in the Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Section are asked also to include the full paper.

Program Unit Chairs

Jacobus A. Naude

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