The Origin of the Ethiosemitic Verb hlw "to be present"
The Ethiosemitic verb hlw "to be present" is strange in three regards: it shows an unusual alternation between -o and -awa in Classical Ethiopic; it is formally Perfect, but used in the present tense; and it has no verbal cognates in other branches of Semitic. This is because it is origina...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
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2022
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JAOS
Año: 2022, Volumen: 142, Número: 3, Páginas: 699-704 |
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| Sumario: | The Ethiosemitic verb hlw "to be present" is strange in three regards: it shows an unusual alternation between -o and -awa in Classical Ethiopic; it is formally Perfect, but used in the present tense; and it has no verbal cognates in other branches of Semitic. This is because it is originally not a Perfect, but a presentative particle, to be connected with other Semitic presentatives reflecting *hallaw. Due to the leveling of the second-person object suffixes to the Perfect endings in Ethiosemitic, suffixed presentative forms like hallo-ka could be reanalyzed as consisting of a verbal stem hallo- and a subject ending -ka. Other forms of the paradigm, including the 3M.SG Perfect hallaw-a, were then created by analogy with III-w 02-stem verbs like fannawa "to send". |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2289 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: American Oriental Society, JAOS
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7817/jaos.142.3.2022.br002 |
