The Occurrence of Pausal Forms
The common opinion maintains that the accents determine the occurrence of pausal forms, despite various problems with this view. E.g. any disjunctive accent may be marked on a pausal form, and a few conjunctives are also so marked. Moreover, it is easy to find both contextual and pausal forms of a w...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2012]
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 213-230 |
| Further subjects: | B
Pausalform
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| Summary: | The common opinion maintains that the accents determine the occurrence of pausal forms, despite various problems with this view. E.g. any disjunctive accent may be marked on a pausal form, and a few conjunctives are also so marked. Moreover, it is easy to find both contextual and pausal forms of a word marked with the same accent. Syntactic (or more correctly, semantic) structure provides a solider theoretical base for the development of pausal forms than do the accents, a base with fewer problems. The vast majority of pausal forms stand at the end of a clause. The remainder (some 15%) stand within a clause in equally standardized positions, mostly at the main division of the clause as marked by the accents. Consequently, it should be agreed that the occurrence of pausal forms is determined by the syntactic/semantic units making up the text. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-8556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Semitic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgs001 |