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This monograph is a corpus-based description of the modal system of epistolary Old Babylonian, one of the best attested Akkadian dialects, using the European structural method. The study strives to match a concrete exponent (i.e., an array of formal features, morphological and syntactic) with a semantic value, in using syntactic criteria. The book treats:
1. the asseverative paradigm (used for insistence, concession and oath), explaining the syntactic mechanism behind these forms;
2. the various precative-based paradigms in various syntactic conditions: the directive group, the wish group and the interrogative group;
3. the same forms occurring in special syntactic patterns-the sequential precative and the concessive-conditional precative;
4. the paratactic conditional; and
5. the modal nominal syntagm ša para:sim.
Together with this description, some additional problems are addressed for which solutions are developed: the focus system of Old Babylonian; the general linguistic issue of "emphatic assertion" (using an English corpus); and a way to describe the syntactic nature of paratactic conditional structures.Â
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THE MODAL SYSTEM OF OLD BABYLONIAN
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Eran Cohen
EISENBRAUNS Winona Lake, Indiana 2005
HARVARD SEMITIC MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS Lawrence E. Stager, General Editor Michael D. Coogan, Director of Publications
HARVARD SEMITIC STUDIES Jo Ann Hackett and John Huehnergard, editors Moshe H. Goshen-