The Proleptic Dative Pronoun in Tannaitic Language

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Abstract

This paper describes the verbal construction that contains the proleptic dativepronoun, such as in the sentence: ’לב ו ל אמר‘ א) lit. ‘A said to him to B’), in which the dative pronoun לו is co-referential with the prepositional phrase following it – בל .‘This construction comes in place of the standard construction ’לב ר אמ‘ א) lit. ‘A said to B’). The paper examines all 262 occurrences of this pronoun in all the compositions of the Tannaitic literature. Chapter 2 examines several aspects of the use of the proleptic dative pronoun: a presentation of the inventory of the forms of the pronoun (2.1), a characterization of the linguistic components that accompany it (2.2), a clarification regarding its syntactic position (2.3), and an exploration of the role of the pronoun (2.4). The last section (2.5) presents the differences between the various traditions of thecompositions as regards the use of the pronoun.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)103-137
JournalFolia Orientalia
Volume51
StatePublished - 2014

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