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title: "Discourse Structure, Verb Forms, and Archaism in Psalm 18 — Longacre 2006"
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year: 2006
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# Discourse Structure, Verb Forms, and Archaism in Psalm 18

**Authors:** Robert E. Longacre · **Year:** 2006 · **Venue:** Journal of Translation 2/1 **Link:** [doi.org/10.54395/jot-je6cc](https://doi.org/10.54395/jot-je6cc) · not in the library (download refused, HTTP 403, 2026-10-17) · **Licence:** free to read, no CC licence — summary only

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**Authors (1)**

1. [Robert E. Longacre](https://openalex.org/A5079884655) [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/73142090) · h 22 · 2,433 citations · 121 works

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## What it is about

**Not read: the PDF could not be fetched.** From the title and the author's known framework (text-linguistic "verb rank" schemes for narrative, predictive, hortatory and expository discourse): the paper analyses the verb forms of Psalm 18 (parallel to 2 Samuel 22), a poem that narrates past rescue, and how the poem uses old prefix forms (short yiqtol with past meaning, a preterite) where prose would use wayyiqtol or qatal. It ties the alternation of forms to the poem's discourse structure (sections, peak). Check against the text.

## Ideas

- I1. (to check) In Torah poetry (Exod 15, Deut 32–33, Gen 49, Num 23–24), do not read a prefix form without waw as future by default; flag yiqtol forms in a past-narrative poetic context as possible preterites and count them.
- I2. Compare the parallel texts Psalm 18 and 2 Samuel 22 form by form as a natural experiment on verb-form variation (outside the Torah; for the manual).

## For Mova

I1 applies to the genre section of [languages/hbo/09-discourse.md](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/hbo/09-discourse/) §11 and to `06-verb.md` (yiqtol, the preterite); in `src/prag.rs` a poetry flag would stop the future reading. I2 is a manual example. Re-read once the PDF is in.

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## Cite

Cite as Robert E. Longacre. 2006. Discourse Structure, Verb Forms, and Archaism in Psalm 18. Journal of Translation.

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. [DOI 10.54395/jot-je6cc](https://doi.org/10.54395/jot-je6cc)

```bibtex
@article{longacre2006discourse,
  title = {{Discourse Structure, Verb Forms, and Archaism in Psalm 18}},
  author = {Robert E. Longacre},
  journal = {Journal of Translation},
  year = {2006},
  doi = {10.54395/jot-je6cc},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.54395/jot-je6cc}
}
```

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