Motion, Voice, and Mood in the Semitic Verb / / Henning Ambjörn Sjörs.

This book explores the relationship between the so-called ventive morpheme in Akkadian (-am) and the related suffixes -n and -a in other Semitic languages, including Amarna Canaanite, Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Arabic. Using formal reconstructions of the various morphemes and a functional analysis of the...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Languages of the Ancient Near East
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Lists of Abbreviations
  • Symbols and Transcriptions
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Preliminaries
  • Chapter 2. Theoretical Prerequisites
  • Part 2: Analysis of the Material
  • Chapter 3. The Middle Ventive in Sargonic Akkadian and Literary Old Babylonian
  • Chapter 4. The Ventive- Energic in Amarna Canaanite
  • Chapter 5. The Ventive- Energic in Ugaritic
  • Chapter 6. The Ventive- Energic in Biblical Hebrew
  • Chapter 7. The Ventive in Prestandardized Classical Arabic I: The Energic
  • Chapter 8. The Ventive in Prestandardized Classical Arabic II: The Subjunctive
  • Part 3: Summary and Conclusions
  • Chapter 9. Morphological Aspects of the Ventive Morpheme
  • Chapter 10. Functional Aspects of the Ventive Morpheme
  • Bibliography
  • Ancient Source Index