rblackwelder Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 I am trying to search for all the occurrences of the infinitive construct + ל where it has a nominal function in the Hebrew Bible. Here are two examples of this usage from Joün-Muraoka's A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew § 124b: וְאִם רַע בְּעֵינֵיכֶם לַעֲבֹד אֶת־יְהוָה (Josh 24:15); וְעָלַי לָתֶת לְךָ (Sam 18:11). I am having trouble replicating this phenomenon. Any suggestions? Regards, Ryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Holmstedt Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 In both your examples, the infinitive (with or without ל) clause functions as the syntactic subject of a null copula ("verbless") clause. If these are the kind you want, the search attached below should work. If you also want infinitive clauses that function as verbal or copular complements, let me know -- the searches would be different. NominalizedInfinitiveSubject.accord.zip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rblackwelder Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 @Robert Holmstedt, thank you very much! This is exactly what I was looking for. I overcomplicated the search exponentially. If I was to search for infinitive clauses that function as verbal or copular complements, would I just change the dependent clause to complement rather than subject? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Holmstedt Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I'm still working on the verbal and copular complement search. I'll post it when I sort it out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Holmstedt Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) Ok, the first search ("InfinitiveASComplement") in the zip file gets Infinitives that are the complement of a verb or null copula clause. If you want to distinguish the verbal from copular types, you'd need to add a higher predicate phrase and then specify the predicate as verbal or null. I've attached the null search (you can just swap out null for verbal to get the others). InfinitiveSearches.zip Edited February 26, 2016 by Robert Holmstedt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rblackwelder Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 Thank you very much once again! Knowing how to do these kinds of searches are very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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