We focused in this study on two verbs of motion ba （come） and hevi （bring） used in contemporary Hebrew pointing to a number of semantic shifts occurring in each of them and to categorical shifts that occurred in t...We focused in this study on two verbs of motion ba （come） and hevi （bring） used in contemporary Hebrew pointing to a number of semantic shifts occurring in each of them and to categorical shifts that occurred in the verb ha. We conducted a semantic and syntactic analysis of these shifts in which we observed： a change in the syntactic valuation of ba and hevi, the semantic characteristic of the nominal collocations which form their syntactic setting, and the semantic connection between their original and new meanings. The article starts out with a presentation of the original meanings of the two verbs as belonging to the family of concrete verbs of motion. It then presents the semantic shifts each undergoing from designating motion to designating giving, existing, and modality （capability, intent and aspect） and concludes with the categorical shift of the verb ba to impersonal （ロ＂λ∏） and to discourse marker. It is noteworthy that in each of the shifts observed we noticed relation between the meaning stemming from the shift and the original meaning of ba and hevi as verbs of motion. We were able to prove that the original meaning is still echoed both in the semantic and category categorical shifts.展开更多
文摘We focused in this study on two verbs of motion ba （come） and hevi （bring） used in contemporary Hebrew pointing to a number of semantic shifts occurring in each of them and to categorical shifts that occurred in the verb ha. We conducted a semantic and syntactic analysis of these shifts in which we observed： a change in the syntactic valuation of ba and hevi, the semantic characteristic of the nominal collocations which form their syntactic setting, and the semantic connection between their original and new meanings. The article starts out with a presentation of the original meanings of the two verbs as belonging to the family of concrete verbs of motion. It then presents the semantic shifts each undergoing from designating motion to designating giving, existing, and modality （capability, intent and aspect） and concludes with the categorical shift of the verb ba to impersonal （ロ＂λ∏） and to discourse marker. It is noteworthy that in each of the shifts observed we noticed relation between the meaning stemming from the shift and the original meaning of ba and hevi as verbs of motion. We were able to prove that the original meaning is still echoed both in the semantic and category categorical shifts.
