Anchoring world and time in biblical Hebrew

This article is an extended version of a paper read at the conference of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), 2000. It was presented in departmental seminars at the Linguistics Section of the English Department at Hebrew University, the Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University, the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben Gurion University, and the Program in Linguistics at Emory University. I am grateful to the participants in all of these presentations for their valuable comments. I also want to thank my friends and colleagues Mohammad Mohammad and Edit Doron for discussing the subject with me prior to its presentation. Finally, I wish to thank the anonymous JL referees for their generous comments, which I used to improve the paper in both content and organization.