Uses of Biblical Hebrew כִּי kī in Genesis, Judges, Samuel, and Ruth

This is the data set accompanying chapter 4 of Staps (2024). It contains all occurrences of the Biblical Hebrew word כִּי kī in Genesis, Judges, Samuel, and Ruth.

The file is a CSV file. The first line is a heading. Each other line describes a single use of כִּי kī. Fields are separated by a comma character (','). When the field value contains a comma, it is enclosed by double quotation marks ("…").

The data is annotated with the following columns:

Node: the number of the node for כִּי kī in the 2021 version of the ETCBC data set (Roorda et al. 2021). Only needed when importing the data programmatically.

Construction: indicates the larger construction כִּי kī is part of, if any (e.g. כִּי אִם kī ʾim).

Type:

adversative: 'but'.

causal: gives the reason for a state or event. Includes reasons for doing or saying something, as well as explanations based on natural laws.

causal-adversative: like causal, but also adversative ('not like this, because/but like that').

complementizer: introduces an object or subject clause.

concessive: 'though'.

conditional: protasis 'if'.

exceptive: כִּי אִם kī ʾim followed by a DP, translated 'except'.

resultative: gives the result or consequence of an event or state.

standalone: does not connect two clauses but marks some property of the clause itself.

temporal: protasis 'when(ever)', or in the past 'when'.

-: excluded (e.g. because of poetry, repetition, or textual emendation; see Notes).

CompPred: gives the predicate for cases of Type “complementizer” (usually a verb).

CommonGround: indicates whether the information in the כִּי kī-clause is in the Common Ground. In narrative portions the Common Ground is between author and reader. In quotations it is between Speaker and Addressee. Values can be:

no

yes

accommodated: the information is not in the Common Ground yet, but can be easily accommodated by the Addressee. For example, it may be not that relevant, or it is already partially CG, or it can be deduced from the rest of the CG. Typically not at-issue.

imposed: the Speaker imposes the information on the Common Ground, even though it is new, to achieve some discursive effect.

BasedOn: the verse(s) the CommonGround categorization is based on.

Notes: explanation for the choices made, cross-references, and other notes.

Staps (2024) is based on v1 of this data set (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8314818).