The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781628375077)

The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions presents an analysis of the sources and diachronic developments of forty-one prepositions in the Hebrew Bible from the viewpoint of grammaticalization within a historical-linguistics framework. The study contributes a detailed corpus-based accounting of the variation evidenced by the usages of Biblical Hebrew prepositions and provides a descriptive model of the emergence of this linguistic subsystem.