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In this article we apply a method of proof for conceptual consistency in a long historical range taking the example of rhetoric and persuasion. We analyze the evidentially present linguistic features of this concept within three linguistic areas: the ...
Fee-Alexandra Haase
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Emphasis, glottalization and pharyngealization in Semitic and Afroasiatic
This paper investigates the phenomenon of emphasis in Semitic from a phonological perspective. It is well known that Semitic emphatics can be realized either as ejectives (Ethiosemitic) or as pharyngealized consonants (Arabic).
Fabio Gasparini
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Hybrid Characteristics of Prefixed Verbs in Yiddish
The research objective was to show the hybrid characteristics of prefixed verbs in Yiddish caused by its contact with Semitic and Slavic languages. The Yiddish system of verb prefixes, in particular, those with hybrid polysemy, is a phenomenon when the ...
K. A. Shishigin
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This study aimed to describe the language kinship between Arabic and Hebrew as semitic languages when comparing حروف الجر and מילות יחס (milot yakhats). The question in this study addressed the similarities and differences between حروف الجر in the Arabic
Asrina Asrina, Ilham Ramadhan
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Embedded imperatives in Semitic, Germanic, and other languages
Several Semitic and Germanic languages, just as languages belonging to other language families (Slovenian, Korean), embed imperatives and thus use direct speech in syntactical context, where most other languages would use subordinate clauses.
Edzard, Lutz
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Perspectives from comparisons of the Hebrew l-suffix with the Shona h-suffix features
The ethical dative or dativus ethicus is a feature used with certain verbs in Biblical Hebrew, which, however, has continued to pose difficulties to grammarians as to its syntactic and semantic references.
Godwin Mushayabasa
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Canaanite Parallelism in Hittite and Egyptian Texts: Transmission and Adaptation
This article examines selected instances of Canaanite poetic parallelism preserved in two Late Bronze Age texts outside the Levant: the Hittite Elkunirša and the Egyptian pLeiden I 343 + 345.
Noga Ayali-Darshan
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The Semitic root evolution (cultural and historical aspect)
The paper considers the long-ago perceived, but inadequately studied phenomenon of the Semitic root triconsonantism. Some examples of the paradigm realization from the Biblical Hebrew, where the adducing of the third consonant to a 2C-root (biconsonantal)
A.E. Zeldin
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The Verb in Classical Hebrew [PDF]
The consecutive tenses are fundamental in all descriptions of Classical Hebrew grammar. They are even basic to the textbooks on Biblical Hebrew. Being fundamental in the verbal system, and part of any beginner’s grammar, they pose a serious problem to a ...
Isaksson, Bo
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The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin
The Proto-Semitic genitive ending on triptotic nouns is commonly reconstructed as *-im (unbound state)/*-i (bound state). In Akkadian, however, this case ending is long -ī- before pronominal suffixes.
Benjamin Suchard
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