Psalm 89 Discourse

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↑ Cf. Baethgen 1904, 276.
↑ When the entire utterance is new/unexpected, it is a thetic sentence (often called "sentence focus"). See our Creator Guidelines for more information on topic and focus.
↑ Frame setters are any orientational constituent – typically, but not limited to, spatio-temporal adverbials – function to "limit the applicability of the main predication to a certain restricted domain" and "indicate the general type of information that can be given" in the clause nucleus (Krifka & Musan 2012: 31-32). In previous scholarship, they have been referred to as contextualizing constituents (see, e.g., Buth (1994), “Contextualizing Constituents as Topic, Non-Sequential Background and Dramatic Pause: Hebrew and Aramaic evidence,” in E. Engberg-Pedersen, L. Falster Jakobsen and L. Schack Rasmussen (eds.) Function and expression in Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 215-231; Buth (2023), “Functional Grammar and the Pragmatics of Information Structure for Biblical Languages,” in W. A. Ross & E. Robar (eds.) Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 67-116), but this has been conflated with the function of topic. In brief: sentence topics, belonging to the clause nucleus, are the entity or event about which the clause provides a new predication; frame setters do not belong in the clause nucleus and rather provide a contextual orientation by which to understand the following clause.
↑ Lunn 2006, 176.
↑ Lunn 2006, 176.
↑ Lunn 2006, 162.
↑ Lunn 2006, 68.
↑ Cf. Lunn 2006, 62–63.
↑ Cf. Miller 2010, 360–363.
↑ Cf. Kim 2023, 213–217.
↑ Cf. Miller 2010.
↑ Cf. Miller 2010, 357. Compare Ps 13:2—עַד־אָ֣נָה יְ֭הוָה תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֣נִי נֶ֑צַח
↑ Cf. Miller 2010, 357.
↑ Cf. Miller 2010, 360–363.
↑ See Locatell 2019.
↑ See Locatell 2019.
↑ Cf. Gunkel and Begrich 1998, 23-24; 29-30.
↑ Cf. Bandstra 1995, 45–52; for waw + yiqtol after selah, see also Pss 52:8; 59:15.

[1] Cf. Baethgen 1904, 276.

[2] When the entire utterance is new/unexpected, it is a thetic sentence (often called "sentence focus"). See our Creator Guidelines for more information on topic and focus.

[3] Frame setters are any orientational constituent – typically, but not limited to, spatio-temporal adverbials – function to "limit the applicability of the main predication to a certain restricted domain" and "indicate the general type of information that can be given" in the clause nucleus (Krifka & Musan 2012: 31-32). In previous scholarship, they have been referred to as contextualizing constituents (see, e.g., Buth (1994), “Contextualizing Constituents as Topic, Non-Sequential Background and Dramatic Pause: Hebrew and Aramaic evidence,” in E. Engberg-Pedersen, L. Falster Jakobsen and L. Schack Rasmussen (eds.) Function and expression in Functional Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 215-231; Buth (2023), “Functional Grammar and the Pragmatics of Information Structure for Biblical Languages,” in W. A. Ross & E. Robar (eds.) Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 67-116), but this has been conflated with the function of topic. In brief: sentence topics, belonging to the clause nucleus, are the entity or event about which the clause provides a new predication; frame setters do not belong in the clause nucleus and rather provide a contextual orientation by which to understand the following clause.

[4] Lunn 2006, 176.

[5] Lunn 2006, 176.

[6] Lunn 2006, 162.

[7] Lunn 2006, 68.

[8] Cf. Lunn 2006, 62–63.

[9] Cf. Miller 2010, 360–363.

[10] Cf. Kim 2023, 213–217.

[11] Cf. Miller 2010.

[12] Cf. Miller 2010, 357. Compare Ps 13:2—עַד־אָ֣נָה יְ֭הוָה תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֣נִי נֶ֑צַח

[13] Cf. Miller 2010, 357.

[14] Cf. Miller 2010, 360–363.

[15] See Locatell 2019.

[16] See Locatell 2019.

[17] Cf. Gunkel and Begrich 1998, 23-24; 29-30.

[18] Cf. Bandstra 1995, 45–52; for waw + yiqtol after selah, see also Pss 52:8; 59:15.