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[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5025732228) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-9824) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5025732228) · [764 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5025732228) · [185 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5025732228) — openalex, 2026-10-18 The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Alexander+Andrason) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Alexander+Andrason) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Alexander+Andrason) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Alexander+Andrason) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Alexander+Andrason) Topics: [Speech act theory](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/speech-act-theory/) 2 · [Discourse analysis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/discourse-analysis/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[Serial Verb Constructions in North-West Semitic languages: From a synchronic radiation back to the 'Big Bang'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2022-andrason-serial-verb-constructions-north-west/)** *(2022)* The paper compares serial verb constructions (two verbs forming one event, the first a "minor" verb adding aspect or mode) in Canaano-Akkadian, Ugaritic, Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic, measuring each against the prototype of a serial construction and its degree of grammaticalization. 2. **[The Structure of Interjections in Biblical Hebrew: Phonetics, Morphology, and Syntax](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2020-andrason-structure-interjections-biblical-hebrew-phonetics/)** *(2020)* The paper tests twelve primary emotive interjections of Biblical Hebrew (אֲהָהּ, אוֹי, הוֹי, אוֹיָה, אָח, הֶאָח, אַלְלַי, הָהּ, הוֹ and others: "ah, alas, woe, aha") against the typological prototype of an interjection, feature by feature, in phonology (7 features), morphology (2) and syntax (6), and scores the fit… 3. **[Towards a complex analysis of Wayihî + T constructions in Biblical Hebrew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2018-westbury-towards-complex-analysis-wayihi-t/)** *(2018)* The full text is not in the library; this card rests on the repository's abstract, so the ideas are provisional. 4. **[Against Binarism, Simplicity, Neatness and Stasis: A Theoretical Prolegomenon to the Reality of Verbal Grams in Biblical Hebrew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2026-andrason-against-binarism-simplicity-neatness-stasis/)** *(2017)* A theoretical paper from cognitive linguistics and complexity theory. Its claim: models of the Biblical Hebrew verb that assign each form one binary value (perfective vs imperfective, past vs non-past) are "folk" models that, like perceptual illusions, add order that is not in the data. Instead the author proposes… 5. **[To resume or not to resume: Some remarks on 'resumption' in left dislocation constructions in Polish, and its relevance for Biblical Hebrew](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2016-andrason-resume-resume-some-remarks-resumption/)** *(2016)* Part of a 2015 Stellenbosch workshop on left dislocation (LD) in Biblical Hebrew, where one camp holds that LD needs a resumptive pronoun (otherwise it is "extreme topicalisation") and the other treats resumption as a prototype feature that may be missing. 6. **[The Complexity of Verbal Semantics — An Intricate Relationship Between Qatal and Wayyiqtol](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2016-andrason-complexity-verbal-semanticsan-intricate-relationship/)** *(2016)* The author reviews four traditional views of how qatal and wayyiqtol relate (identical, opposed, unrelated, similar but distinct) and replaces them with a frequency-weighted "kinetic map" of each form's senses. 7. **[Toward the Ocean of the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2026-andrason-toward-ocean-biblical-hebrew-verbal/)** *(2015)* The paper lifts the author's semantic-map approach from single verb forms to the whole system. Each form is placed on a cross-linguistic grammaticalization path, with its senses weighted by frequency ("waves"): qatal and wayyiqtol on the resultative path (resultative → perfect → perfective past), yiqtol (ongoing →… 8. **[An Optative Indicative? A Real Factual Past? Toward a Cognitive-Typological Approach to the Precative Qatal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2013-andrason-optative-indicative-real-factual-past/)** *(2013)* One of the author's series on rare senses of qatal. About 98% of qatal uses are indicative (perfect, past, stative), but some twenty cases, mostly in the Psalms, express a wish or a command: "Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me (qatal) from the horns of the wild oxen" (Ps 22:22). In the clear cases the… 9. **[Making It Sound: The Performative Qatal and Its Explanation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2012-andrason-making-sound-performative-qatal-explanation/)** *(2012)* Qatal is sometimes used not to report an act but to perform it at the moment of speaking: "I give you the field" (Gen 23:11), "I swear by myself", "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today" (Deut 4:26; 30:19), "I declare to you today" (Deut 26:3; 30:18). 10. **[Biblical Hebrew Wayyiqtol: A Dynamic Definition](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2011-andrason-biblical-hebrew-wayyiqtol-dynamic-definition/)** *(2011)* The paper argues that wayyiqtol cannot be reduced to one label ("past", "perfective", or "the narrative mainline form"). 11. **[The Panchronic Yiqtol: Functionally Consistent and Cognitively Plausible](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2010-andrason-panchronic-yiqtol-functionally-consistent-cognitively/)** *(2010)* Synchronically the long yiqtol looks chaotic: present progressive and habitual, aspect-neutral future, past habitual and past imperfective, simple past after אָז, relative future after טֶרֶם, many modal senses, and background in narrative but foreground in speech. ## Co-authors (3) - Irina Hornea - [Josh Westbury](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/josh-westbury/) - Marcus Joubert - [← previous Alex Warstadt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/alex-warstadt/) - [next → Alexander Koller](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/alexander-koller/) - [↑ back to Authors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/)