Topic, focus and foreground in ancient Hebrew narratives
"This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements. The outcome of the study demonstrates that the traditional binary distinction between foreground and background, based purely on verb forms, is inadequate."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©1999
Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, Eng., ©1999