Paul Danove 72 1. positive hkousa de; kai; fwnh~ legouvsh~ moi, jAnastav", Pevtre, [ quson kai; favge ` And I heard a voice saying to me, «Peter, rising, slaughter and eat.» (Acts 11:7). 2. negative: kai; ejavn tiv~ mou ajkouvsh/ tw`n rJhmavtwn kai; mh; fulavxh/ and if someone hears my words and does not keep them (John 12:47). Third, the response may be to something «not heard» when this con- notes a refusal to hear: kaqa; kai; ta; loipa; e[qnh, o{sa kuvrio~ ajpolluvei pro; proswvpou umwn, ou{tw~ ajpolei`sqe, ajnqæ w|n oujk hjkouvsate th'~ fwnh'~ kurivou J` tou` qeou` uJmw`n. And like the other nations which [the Lord] destroyed before your face, so too will you be destroyed because you did not listen to the voice of [the] Lord your God (Deut 8:20). Fourth, the response may precede ajkouvw when actions appear out of chronological sequence 16: kai; uJpevstreyan oiJ poimevne~ doxavzonte~ kai; aijnou`nte~ to;n qeo;n epi; pa`sin oi|~ h[kousan kai; ei\don kaqw;~ ejlalhvqh pro;~ aujtouv" j And the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things that they heard and saw, just as it was told to them (Luke 2:20). Within this analysis, subjects that register a response to hearing are deemed to be characterized by the semantic feature, «+ response,» with all other subjects receiving the feature, «– response 17.» The genitive in 181 of 183 transitive occurrences of ajkouvw (direct perception) indicates the feature [+ response] 18. Of the two remaining examples of the genitive, 16 In 1 Sam 15:22 the response appears in the infinitive in 15:23, whose subject ref- erent is the same as that of ajkouvw. 17 The appeal to semantic considerations in contexts of extension greater than a clause or verb phrase is similar to that required for the analysis of anaphora: cf. C. J. Fillmore, «Pragmatically controlled zero anaphora,» in Papers from the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, (1986) 95-107. 18 Object noun phrase [+ response, - speaker] (genitive, direct): Gen 3:8, 10, 17; 4:23; 21:12; 24:52; 27:43; 37:6; Exod 3:7; 15:26; 18:24; 19:5; 23:22a, 22b; 32:17; Num 12:6; Deut 4:1; 8:20; 13:4, 5, 19; 21:20 [A]; 28:1, 2, 9, 13, 45 [A], 49; Josh 1:18; 6:20; 24:24; Judg 5:16; 11:28; 20:13; 1 Sam 2:25; 4:6; 8:7, 9, 22; 12:1, 14, 15; 15:1, 19, 20, 22, 24; 19:6; 24:10; 25:24 [R], 35; 28:18, 21, 22, 23; 2 Sam 13:14, 16; 1 Kgs [5:14a, 14b], 21; 8:28; 9:3; 10:24; 12:24, 24z; 13:4; 21:25, 36; 2 Kgs 18:12; 19:6; 20:5; 22:13; 2 Chr 6:20, 21, 35, 39; 7:12; 9:23; 34:21; 35:22; 1 Esdr 5:62; 9:40, 50; 2 Esdr 19:16; 1 Macc 2:22; 6:41; 10:74; 13:7; 14:25; 2 Macc 7:30; 3 Macc 6:23; Ps 6:9 [A, S]; 17:7; 80:12; 94:7; 101:21 [R]; 102:20; 118:149; Prov 1:5; Job 21:2; Jonah 2:3; Hag