The genitive construction in the Emar testaments
By comparing the different ways by which the Emar testaments express a genitive relationship, with those practices revealed in the Akkadian of Ugarit and Carchemish, this article wishes to reveal that at Emar "a N2" as a part of "N1 a N2" can, apart from being an attribute, also...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1993
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| In: |
Journal for semitics
Year: 1993, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-17 |
| Further subjects: | B
Akkadian of Ugarit
B Carchemish B Emar testaments B Genitive relationship |
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| Summary: | By comparing the different ways by which the Emar testaments express a genitive relationship, with those practices revealed in the Akkadian of Ugarit and Carchemish, this article wishes to reveal that at Emar "a N2" as a part of "N1 a N2" can, apart from being an attribute, also be a predicate. "N1 a N2" could thus mean either "N1 the one of N2" or "N1 is/will be the one of N2." |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/AJA10318471_272 |
