An Outline of Middle Voice in Syriac : : Evidences of a Linguistic Category / / Margherita Farina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Farina, Margherita,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; List of Tables and Charts --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Note on Transliteration --; 1. Introduction to the Problem --; 2. Middle Voice and some Linguistic Correlations --; 3. Et- forms and Inner Passives in Semitic Studies --; 4. Textual Analysis 1: Middle Semantics --; 5. Textual Analysis 2: Coreferential Dative --; 6. Conclusions --; Appendix 1. Diathesis in Medieval Syriac Grammars --; Appendix 2 --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463221270; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463221270
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Margherita Farina.

This study presents a modern linguistic approach to the function of the Syriac et-verbal prefix. Based on a detailed analysis of a number of early Syriac texts, it proposes a unified account of the different values traditionally attributed to the Syriac et- stems. Farina views the data within a typologically comparative framework derived from a cross-linguistic study of middle conjugations.