Psalm 78 Discourse

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↑ See Ray 2023.
↑ E.g., שִׁמְעָ֤ה עַמִּ֨י in Ps 50:7; see Cook 2024, 4.
↑ תּוֹרָתִ֑י; Homily 1, 292-293.
↑ Campbell 1979, 63.
↑ Ḥakham 1979, 41.
↑ Ḥakham 1979, 41.
↑ Talstra 2019, 252; cf. Tammuz 2017, 218.
↑ Alter 2019, 189.
↑ See, e.g., Josh 13:6: רַ֠ק הַפִּלֶ֤הָ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בְּֽנַחֲלָ֔ה; Josh 23:4: רְאוּ֩ הִפַּ֨לְתִּי לָכֶ֜ם אֶֽת־הַ֠גּוֹיִם הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֛לֶּה בְּנַחֲלָ֖ה לְשִׁבְטֵיכֶ֑ם; Ezek 47:22: תַּפִּ֣לוּ אוֹתָהּ֮ בְּנַחֲלָה֒ לָכֶ֗ם; Ezek 48:29: זֹ֥את הָאָ֛רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־תַּפִּ֥ילוּ מִֽנַּחֲלָ֖ה לְשִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל.
↑ When the entire utterance is new/unexpected, it is a thetic sentence (often called "sentence focus"). See our Creator Guidelines for more information on topic and focus.
↑ Frame setters are any orientational constituent – typically, but not limited to, spatio-temporal adverbials – function to "limit the applicability of the main predication to a certain restricted domain" and "indicate the general type of information that can be given" in the clause nucleus (Krifka & Musan 2012: 31-32). In previous scholarship, they have been referred to as contextualizing constituents (see, e.g., Buth (1994), “Contextualizing Constituents as Topic, Non-Sequential Background and Dramatic Pause: Hebrew and Aramaic evidence,” in E. Engberg-Pedersen, L. Falster Jakobsen and L. Schack Rasmussen (eds.) Function and expression in Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 215-231; Buth (2023), “Functional Grammar and the Pragmatics of Information Structure for Biblical Languages,” in W. A. Ross & E. Robar (eds.) Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 67-116), but this has been conflated with the function of topic. In brief: sentence topics, belonging to the clause nucleus, are the entity or event about which the clause provides a new predication; frame setters do not belong in the clause nucleus and rather provide a contextual orientation by which to understand the following clause.
↑ Unaccusatives are constructions which are not only inherently intransitive, but which also require the grammatical subject to be the affected patient of the event—such as "arrive," "come," "die," and "disappear," among others (Goldberg 2004, 533)—though not due to passive transformation of an active construction. "Flaring up" also lacks the volition and initiative required of a prototypical agent, such that it fits the unaccusative profile, which is a central diagnostic of thetic sentences (Goldberg 2004, 533; Bailey 2009, 53; Atkinson 2021).
↑ Lunn 2006, 316.
↑ Lunn 2006, 316.
↑ Kim 2022, 233-235; cf. 2 Kgs 19:16; Ps 24:7, 9, etc.

[1] See Ray 2023.

[2] E.g., שִׁמְעָ֤ה עַמִּ֨י in Ps 50:7; see Cook 2024, 4.

[3] תּוֹרָתִ֑י; Homily 1, 292-293.

[4] Campbell 1979, 63.

[5] Ḥakham 1979, 41.

[6] Ḥakham 1979, 41.

[7] Talstra 2019, 252; cf. Tammuz 2017, 218.

[8] Alter 2019, 189.

[9] See, e.g., Josh 13:6: רַ֠ק הַפִּלֶ֤הָ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בְּֽנַחֲלָ֔ה; Josh 23:4: רְאוּ֩ הִפַּ֨לְתִּי לָכֶ֜ם אֶֽת־הַ֠גּוֹיִם הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֛לֶּה בְּנַחֲלָ֖ה לְשִׁבְטֵיכֶ֑ם; Ezek 47:22: תַּפִּ֣לוּ אוֹתָהּ֮ בְּנַחֲלָה֒ לָכֶ֗ם; Ezek 48:29: זֹ֥את הָאָ֛רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־תַּפִּ֥ילוּ מִֽנַּחֲלָ֖ה לְשִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל.

[10] When the entire utterance is new/unexpected, it is a thetic sentence (often called "sentence focus"). See our Creator Guidelines for more information on topic and focus.

[11] Frame setters are any orientational constituent – typically, but not limited to, spatio-temporal adverbials – function to "limit the applicability of the main predication to a certain restricted domain" and "indicate the general type of information that can be given" in the clause nucleus (Krifka & Musan 2012: 31-32). In previous scholarship, they have been referred to as contextualizing constituents (see, e.g., Buth (1994), “Contextualizing Constituents as Topic, Non-Sequential Background and Dramatic Pause: Hebrew and Aramaic evidence,” in E. Engberg-Pedersen, L. Falster Jakobsen and L. Schack Rasmussen (eds.) Function and expression in Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 215-231; Buth (2023), “Functional Grammar and the Pragmatics of Information Structure for Biblical Languages,” in W. A. Ross & E. Robar (eds.) Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 67-116), but this has been conflated with the function of topic. In brief: sentence topics, belonging to the clause nucleus, are the entity or event about which the clause provides a new predication; frame setters do not belong in the clause nucleus and rather provide a contextual orientation by which to understand the following clause.

[12] Unaccusatives are constructions which are not only inherently intransitive, but which also require the grammatical subject to be the affected patient of the event—such as "arrive," "come," "die," and "disappear," among others (Goldberg 2004, 533)—though not due to passive transformation of an active construction. "Flaring up" also lacks the volition and initiative required of a prototypical agent, such that it fits the unaccusative profile, which is a central diagnostic of thetic sentences (Goldberg 2004, 533; Bailey 2009, 53; Atkinson 2021).

[13] Lunn 2006, 316.

[14] Lunn 2006, 316.

[15] Kim 2022, 233-235; cf. 2 Kgs 19:16; Ps 24:7, 9, etc.