The dynamic short yiqtol
The present paper offers a dynamic definition of a Biblical Hebrew verbal gram, frequently referred to as the "short yiqtol", in which the verbal form is portrayed as a realization of a universal developmental path. Various pieces of synchronic (taxonomy of uses provided in Biblical Hebrew...
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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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2012
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Journal for semitics
Year: 2012, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 308-339 |
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| Summary: | The present paper offers a dynamic definition of a Biblical Hebrew verbal gram, frequently referred to as the "short yiqtol", in which the verbal form is portrayed as a realization of a universal developmental path. Various pieces of synchronic (taxonomy of uses provided in Biblical Hebrew), diachronic (Proto-Semitic origin of the construction and its posterior behavior in Rabbinic and Modern Hebrew) and comparative evidence (values of cognate formations such as iprus and yaqtul in Akkadian and Arabic, respectively) - as well as certain typological facts observable in the Semitic family, in Mandinka and in Spanish - enable the author to classify the gram as aprototypical manifestation of the modal contamination cline, followed by an original resultative input. In this manner, the semantic and functional properties of the short yiqtol can be logically related to the same morphological pattern displayed by the wayyiqtol, a formation with which the short yiqtol shares its origin. Consequently, the whole short prefixmorphology becomes semantically and functionally homogenous, and its growth cognitively plausible: while the yiqtol entity in the wayyiqtol reflects a continuation of the resultative path, that is both directly derivable from and cognitively motivated by the input locution, the form of the short yiqtol category corresponds to the modal contamination of that resultative source. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC130237 |
