Markedness in Canaanite and Hebrew verbs / / by Paul D. Korchin.
Semitic linguistics is arguably involved in its own version of a \'maximalist versus minimalist\' controversy with respect to verbal morphology. Dissent persists about whether and to what degree the Northwest Semitic verb paradigms underlying languages such as Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Ca...
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