Wayyiqol as an Unlikely Preterite
Biblical Hebrew wayyiqol is usually assumed to have derived from Proto-Northwest Semitic *yaqul, a preterite. Parallel diachronic developments in neo-Aramaic and other languages, however, suggest that wayyiqol may not be a preterite but a narrative present, the short member of a short/long pair in w...
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Oxford University Press
[2013]
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Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-42 |
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