Acknowledgments Abbreviations Technical Terms Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Previous Explanations of 1.3. The Focus Pattern 1.

3.1. Change in Word Order in Part C 1.3.2. Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) 1.3.3.

Negative Polarity Items in the Focus Pattern 1.4. Problems with Previous Analyses of as a Unit 1.5. Contrastive Focus with a Change in Word Order 1.5.1. Different Types of Word Order Change in Biblical Hebrew 1.

5.2. Change of Word Order in Part C 1.5.3. Contrastive Focus 1.6. Plan Chapter 2.

in the Focus Pattern 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Stand-Alone Nominalization 2.2.1 Evans''s Use of Ellipsis 2.2.

2. Mithun''s Notion of Extension 2.2.3. Ellipsis vs. Extension for the Analysis of Biblical Hebrew 2.3. Clausal Nominalizations Formed with : Sentence Level vs.

Discourse Level 2.3.1. Contextual Effects at the Sentence Level 2.3.2. Assertion as a Contextual Effect at the Discourse Level 2.3.

3. Interrogative (Rhetorical Question) as a Contextual Effect at the Discourse Level 2.3.4. Mirativity as a Contextual Effect at the Discourse Level 2.3.5. Contrastive Focus as a Contextual Effect at the Discourse Level 2.

4. Summary Chapter 3. in the Focus Pattern 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Antithetic Conditional Protases 3.3.

Ellipsis in the Pseudo-F ocus Pattern 3.4. Ellipsis after in the Focus Pattern 3.5. Ellipsis of or in the Focus Pattern 3.6. Summary Chapter 4. The Full and Reduced Focus Pattern 4.

1. Introduction 4.2. Parallelism between Part A and Part B + C 4.3. Repetition of Verbal Phrases in the Full Focus Pattern 4.3.1.

Typical Examples of the Full Focus Pattern 4.3.2. Semantically Equivalent Verbal Phrases in Part A and Part C 4.4. The Reduced Focus Pattern: Ellipsis of the Repeated Verbal Phrase in Part C 4.5. Ellipsis in Part A 4.

5.1. Ellipsis of the Negated Element in Part A 4.5.2. Ellipsis of Part A in Its Entirety 4.6. Ellipsis and Its Constraints 4.

6.1. The Focus Pattern and the Constraint on Coordinate Structures 4.6.2. The Focus Pattern and the Constraint on Forward Ellipsis 4.6.3.

The Focus Pattern and the Constraint of the Semantic Relations of Nonelided Constituents 4.6.4. The Focus Pattern and the Constraint on Content Identity 4.6.5. The Focus Pattern and the Constraint on Context Identity 4.6.

6. The Focus Pattern and the Constraint on Local Proximity 4.7. Summary Chapter 5. Right Dislocation in Part C 5.1. Introduction 5.2.

Right Dislocation in the Full Focus Pattern 5.2.1. Jer 9:22-23 5.2.2. Jer 7:22-23 5.2.

3. Deut 7:2c-5 5.2.4. Parenthetical Units and the Focus Pattern 5.3. Right Dislocation in the Reduced Focus Pattern 5.3.

1. 2 Sam 13:33 5.3.2. Jer 16:14-15 and Jer 31:29-30 5.3.3. Ezek 12:23 5.

3.4. Deut 12:4-7 5.3.5. 2 Chr 25:7b-8a 5.3.6.

Isa 65:17-18 5.3.7. 1 Sam 8:19 5.4. Summary Chapter 6. Different Ways to Express Negation in Part A 6.1.

Introduction 6.2. Rhetorical Questions Formed with 6.3. Rhetorical Questions Formed with in Oaths 6.3.1. Conditional Clauses vs.

Rhetorical Questions Formed with 6.3.2. The Oath Formula and Right Dislocation 6.3.3. The Oath Formula as a Parenthetical Unit 6.4.

Rhetorical Questions Introduced by in Part A 6.4.1. Ezek 33:11 and Gen 42:15 6.4.2. Num 14:30-31 6.5.

Rhetorical Questions with Interrogative Pronouns in Part A 6.5.1. Deut 10:12-13 and Eccl 5:10 6.5.2. Isa 42:19a and 2 Chr 2:5 6.6.

Unmarked Rhetorical Question in Part A 6.7. Embedded Negation in Part A 6.7.1. Deut 12:13-14 and 2 Kgs 10:23 6.7.2.

2 Kgs 5:15 and Eccl 3:12 6.8. Summary Chapter 7. The Multiple Focus Pattern 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Typical Examples of the Multiple Focus Pattern 7.

2.1. Deut 12:13-14 7.2.2. 2 Kgs 17:35-37 7.2.3.

Deut 12:17-18 7.2.4. Ps 1:1-2 7.3. Multiple Focus Pattern in Reduced Form 7.3.1.

Resumptive Elements in the Focus Pattern 7.3.2. Lev 21:1b-3 7.4. Ezek 44:9b-16 as a Multiple Focus Pattern 7.4.1.

Previous Readings of Ezek 44:9b-16 . 7.4.2 in Ezek 44:9b-16 7.4.3. Redefinition of the Extent of the Clause . 7.

4.4 in Part A and Part C 7.4.5. Parenthetical Unit: vv. 12-14 7.5. Summary Chapter 8.

The Precondition Focus Pattern 8.1. Introduction 8.2. The Full Precondition Focus Pattern 8.3. The Reduced Precondition Focus Pattern 8.3.

1. 2 Kgs 4:24 8.3.2. 2 Kgs 23:9 8.3.3. Isa 55:10-11 8.

3.4. Isa 59:1-2 8.4. Rhetorical Precondition Focus Pattern 8.4.1. Judg 15:7 (Full Form) 8.

4.2. Isa 65:6 (Reduced Form) 8.4.3. Gen 47:18 (Reduced Form) 8.4.4.

2 Sam 5:6 (Reduced Form) 8.5. Summary Chapter 9. The Nonfocus Pattern 9.1. Introduction . 9.2 with a Conditional Protasis Formed with .

9.2.1 Clause Repeating the Preceding Passage . 9.2.2 Clause that Negates the Preceding Passage . 9.2.

3 Clause that Neither Repeats Nor Negates the Preceding Passage . 9.3 with a Concessive Clause . 9.4 with a Temporal Clause . 9.5 with Rhetorical Questions Formed with 9.5.

1. Rhetorical Questions Beginning with in Oaths 9.5.2. Rhetorical Questions Beginning with in Nonoath Contexts 9.6. Summary Chapter 10. Possible Examples of the Focus Pattern 10.

1. Introduction 10.2. The Ellipsis of in Part B 10.2.1. Some Examples of the . Construction 10.

2.2. Rhetorical Questions in Part A 10.3. The Ellipsis of in Part B 10.4. The Ellipsis of in Part B as well as the Entirety of Part A 10.5.

Summary Chapter 11. Conclusion Appendix A: The Full Focus Pattern Appendix B: The Reduced Focus Pattern Appendix C: The Nonfocus Pattern Bibliography Ancient Sources Index Subject Index.