The Syntax and Semantics of Verb Morphology in Modern Aramaic
Author : Robert D. Hoberman
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Robert D. Hoberman
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Maya Arad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781402032431
This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically. The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are morphologically transparent. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb. While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists. The book is of wide interest to students of many branches of linguistics, including morphology, syntax and lexical semantics, as well as of to students Semitic languages.
Author : Robert Daniel Hoberman
Publisher :
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Aramaic language
ISBN :
Author : Michael B. Shepherd
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781433102011
Grammarians have been unable to provide a sufficient explanation for the verbal system of Biblical Aramaic by means of the standard categories of tense and aspect. Michael B. Shepherd exposes this situation and suggests a way out of the present impasse through distributional analysis by proposing that Biblical Aramaic has a primary verbal form for narration and a primary verbal form for discourse. This simple yet comprehensive proposal holds true not only for Biblical Aramaic but also for extra-Biblical Aramaic texts. This volume is an indispensable resource for courses in Biblical Aramaic and for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Biblical Aramaic corpus.
Author : Itamar Kastner
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961102570
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of argument structure alternations which is anchored in the syntax but has systematic interfaces with the phonology and the semantics. Concretely, the monograph argues for a specific formal system centered around possible values of the head Voice. The formal assumptions are as similar as possible to those made in work on non-Semitic languages. The first part of the book (four chapters) is devoted to Hebrew; the second part (two chapters) compares the current theory with other approaches to Voice and argument structure in the recent literature.
Author : Tarsee Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9004175148
This book explains the verbal system of the Aramaic of Daniel in the context of current research on grammaticalization, which, though first mentioned by Meillet in 1912, did not flourish until the beginning of the 1980 s, and has only more recently been applied to the study of Ancient Near Eastern languages. Although various aspects of the Aramaic of Daniel have been subject of numerous studies, including a few exhaustive studies on the verbal system in the last century, it remains among the most difficult to explain. The explanation offered here is coherent with the historical development of Aramaic as well as the observable tendencies in the development of human languages in general.
Author : Johanna Elizabeth Rubba
Publisher :
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Aramaic language
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Khan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004305041
Being direct descendants of the Aramaic spoken by the Jews in antiquity, the still spoken Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects of Kurdistan deserve special and vivid interest. Geoffrey Khan’s A Grammar of Neo-Aramaic is a unique record of one of these dialects, now on the verge of extinction. This volume, the result of extensive fieldwork, contains a description of the dialect spoken by the Jews from the region of Arbel (Iraqi Kurdistan), together with a transcription of recorded texts and a glossary. The grammar consists of sections on phonology, morphology and syntax, preceded by an introductory chapter examining the position of this dialect in relation to the other known Neo-Aramaic dialects. The transcribed texts record folktales and accounts of customs, traditions and experiences of the Jews of Kurdistan.
Author : Jochen Trommer
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199573735
This book addresses the common problems, questions, and solutions of exponence, which concern the mapping of morphosyntactic structure to phonological representations. Leading specialists formulate a coherent research programme for exponence, integrating the central insights of the last decades and providing challenges for the future.
Author : Stefano Cotrozzi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567574814
This monograph on biblical linguistics is a highly specialized, pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of "foregrounding"-the deviation from some norm or convention-in Old Testament narratives. The author presents and examines the two main sources of pragmatic foregrounding: events or states deviating from well-established schemata, structures of reader expectation that can be manipulated by the narrator to highlight specific "chunks" of discourse; and evaluative devices, which are used by the narrator to indicate to the reader the point of the story and direct its interpretation. Cotrozzi critiques the particular evaluative device known as the "historic present", a narrative strategy that employs the present tense to describe past event. He tests two main theories that support this device by using a cross-linguistic model of the historical present drawing upon a variety of languages. Cotrozzi ultimately refutes these theories with a thorough examination and detailed refutation. He concludes with a study of a particular Hebraic verb as a particular marker of represented perception, a technique whereby the character's perceptions are expressed directly from its point of view.