To follow suit of my co-blogger, here are links to the offprints of my contributions to EHLL that arrive a couple of weeks ago. Without yet having read many of the numerous EHLL offprints from these volumes available on academia.edu, it will be interesting to see how they are received considering the articles appear to at times take diametrically opposite viewpoints on overlapping topics.
One such example came in the immediately-following article to my “Aspect: Pre-Modern Hebrew,” the article “Aspect: Modern Hebrew.” This latter article quite curiously begins with introducing, among other things, Vendler’s four categories of situations. This seems odd only because there is an entire other series of entries on “Actionality (Aktionsart),” to which I contributed the Pre-Modern Hebrew entry, and which is arguably the more suitable location for discussing Vendler’s situation categories.
The other curiosity I noticed is that Jan Joosten begins his “Verbal System: Biblical Hebrew” article (which he kindly sent me and has posted on academia.edu) with the statement that the analysis of the system as consisting of a central opposition between qatal (Perfect) and yiqtol (Imperfect) “has proved wrong headed.” This stands in direct contrast with my statement about this central opposition in Biblical Hebrew in my “Verb” entry, which surveys the historical development of the Hebrew verb from the ancient period to Modern Hebrew. These volumes would appear to promise an interesting potpourri of perspectives on the Hebrew language.
2013. Actionality (Aktionsart): Pre-Modern Hebrew. Pp. 25–28 in Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Volume 1: A–F, ed. Geoffrey Khan. Leiden: Brill, 1.25–28. (PDF)
2013. Aspect: Pre-Modern Hebrew. Pp. 201–5 in Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Volume 1: A–F, ed. Geoffrey Khan. Boston/Leiden: Brill. (PDF)
2013. Verb. Pp. 896–901 in Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Volume 3: P–Z, ed. Geoffrey Khan. Boston/Leiden: Brill. (PDF)