Most Probably: Epistemic Modality in Old Babylonian / / Nathan Wasserman.
The system that any language uses to express evaluations, judgments, estimations, and non-real situations tends to be complicated and poorly understood, and this has certainly been the case, historically, for Akkadian. In this study, Nathan Wasserman presents the fruit of 15 years of study of the ep...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Languages of the Ancient Near East
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Modal Particle pīqat in Old Babylonian
- 2. The Modal Particle midde
- 3. The Modal Particles wuddi and anna
- 4. The Modal Expression lū ittum
- 5. The Modal Particle tuša
- 6. The Modal Particle -man and the Irrealis Constructions ibašši, lū, and ašar
- 7. The Modal Particle kīša and the Expressions kī ša and kīma ša
- 8. The Modal Particle assurrē
- 9. The Modal Particle -mi
- 10. Conclusions: Epistemic Modality in Old Babylonian
- Bibliography
- List of Texts Cited in the Study (with the MP indicated)
- Indexes