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		<title>SBL Paper: John Cook on the &#8220;waw&#8221;- verbal forms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John has written before on the use of the labels &#8220;waw-consecutive&#8221; and &#8220;waw-conversive.&#8221; In this presentation he made a similar case that the waw really has nothing to do with the semantics of the wayyiqtol and weqatal forms and thus should be dropped from our terminology. He suggests that the wayyiqtol form could be better [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=606&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SBL Paper: Paul Korchin on the Pseudo-Cohortative</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may know Paul Korchin&#8217;s name from his dissertation on markedness in the Canaanite and Hebrew verbal system. He delivered a paper in the Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew section which I found interesting.
In Biblical Hebrew 1st person verbs we sometimes find cohortative forms where we would expect a nonvolitive meaning. For instance, in parallel passages [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=602&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back from SBL</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/back-from-sbl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great time in New Orleans this week and am very glad to have met as many of you as I could. I apologize for not making the bloggers dinner, but we had so many HUC alumni from varying career stages present that I was able to get in a lot of great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=600&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report from New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/report-from-new-orleans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m here in New Orleans for SBL. I&#8217;m not sure if it is because I feel a little higher on the totem pole this year (it feels nice to say ABD, but it will really feel good to finally add the Ph). Perhaps it is because my network of friends has grown a bit so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=598&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting back up to speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My main computer is an iBook G4 that is going on 6 years old now. For the last few months the hard drive has been spinning quite loudly and clicking at me, a sure sign of impending doom (plus I only had about 1/2 GB of free space left which meant it ran slooooow).
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		<title>My &#8220;dream&#8221; job, just a couple years early</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Jack Sasson&#8217;s Agade list:
YALE UNIVERSITY, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is seeking to fill a full-time appointment as Lector or Senior Lector with responsibility to teach Aramaic, Advanced Syriac, Ugaritic, and Comparative Semitics, beginning July 1, 2010. Competence in further Semitic languages is welcomed. Ph.D. preferred but not required. Interest in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=580&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A closer look at definiteness &#8211; the uniqueness approach</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/a-closer-look-at-definiteness-the-uniqueness-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In languages with the grammatical category of definiteness, the prototypical definite noun phrase is one marked with the definite article. This is usually contrasted with an indefinite article or bare noun phrase such as in example 1:
(1a) I bought the car today.
(1b) I bought a car today.
Explanations for the various uses of the definite article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=568&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Definiteness, information structure, and the particle את in BH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new series of posts I would like to introduce the research project behind my dissertation. My hope is that in being transparent during the writing process I can receive good feedback beyond my primary readers. The danger of being too transparent, of course, is that someone may borrow some of my ideas. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=566&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One step closer</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/one-step-closer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer and fall I have been working on a paper that summarizes much of the linguistic research that forms the background of my dissertation topic. I finally finished and sent the paper off to my advisor yesterday, so if all goes well I can begin working on the actual dissertation proposal here in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=564&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goings on in the blogosphere</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/goings-on-in-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Cook has written a post on the verbal system in BH poetry, a topic I touched on earlier in the summer. His instinct is similar to mine that the semantics of the verbal system are similar in prose and poetry, but this is obscured by the fact that narrative convention &#8220;tips&#8221; the reader to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=561&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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