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The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach

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The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach - Gossai, Hemchand, and Shepherd, Michael B
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Grammarians have been unable to provide a sufficient explanation for the verbal system of Biblical Aramaic by means of the standard categories of tense and aspect. Michael B. Shepherd exposes this situation and suggests a way out of the present impasse through distributional analysis by proposing that Biblical Aramaic has a primary verbal form for narration and a primary verbal form for discourse. This simple yet comprehensive proposal holds true not only for Biblical Aramaic but also for extra-Biblical Aramaic texts. This ...

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The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach 2007, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9781433102011

Hardcover