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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Superior document:Harvard Semitic Museum publications
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Place / Publishing House:Winona Lake, Ind. : : Eisenbrauns,, 2008.
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Harvard Semitic Studies 58.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 368 pages).
Notes:Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Harvard University, 2001) entitled Markedness and Semitic morphology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Approaching a Century of Markedness
  • Markedness in Semitic Morphology
  • Formal and Functional Parameters for Markedness
  • The Canaano-Akkadian Prefixed Verb System
  • The Biblical Hebrew Prefixed Verb System
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Verbs.