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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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- [Publisher's page](https://doi.org/10.54395/jot-je6cc)
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- [DOI 10.54395/jot-je6cc](https://doi.org/10.54395/jot-je6cc)
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1. [Robert E. Longacre](https://openalex.org/A5079884655) h 22 · 2447 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 [Discourse: narrative, speech and the shape of a text](https://md.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.

Topics: [Discourse analysis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/discourse-analysis/)

## Cite

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)

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

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