This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, K... more This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Kivik, Sweden, 5-7 August 2012. A strong incentive for the symposium was the renewed interest, in recent years, in the nature of non-main clause linking. Current research has brought into focus the concept of a main line and digressions from the main line in various discourse types. The conference invited papers on all related topics with emphasis on “ways of combining clauses other than through relative clause and complement clause constructions”.
The editors are proud to present this original research for the first time to the international audience.
Contents of the volume:
Clause linking in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö: Circumstantial Clause Combining in Oral Egyptian Arabic: A preliminary report covering aspects of asyndesis and auxiliation
Maria Persson: Non-Main Clause Linking and Verb Form Switch in Syrian Arabic: Is there a circumstantial clause?
Clause linking in written Arabic
Hans Lagerqvist: Convergent Syntax in Modern Standard Arabic: Indefinite relative clauses and asyndetic ḥāl clauses
Michal Marmorstein: Verbal Syntax and Textual Structure in Classical Arabic Prose
Clause linking in Biblical Hebrew
Gregor Geiger: Constructions which Precede the wayyiqṭōl Chain in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson: Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry: The Linking of Finite Clauses
Reinhard G. Lehmann: “Since, while and whilst I am a poor man.” The Legacy of Diethelm Michel’s Nominal-Clause Syntax as Applied to a Wider Field of 1st Millennium BCE Northwest Semitic
Alviero Niccacci: Background Constructions inside the Main Line in Biblical Hebrew
Frank Polak: The Circumstantial Clause as Trigger: Syntax, discourse and plot structure in biblical narrative
Clause linking in Ethio-Semitic
Lutz Edzard: Complex predicates and Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC): Serial Verbs and Converbs in a Comparative Semitic Perspective
Clause linking in East Semitic
Eran Cohen: The Domain: A Formal Syntactic Unit Above Sentence Level
Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Mari... more Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 96. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015.
418 pages. ISBN 978-3-447-10405-0.
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_947.ahtml
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in co-operation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusa-lem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project.
Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages.
Contents of the volume:
Clause Combining in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö
Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration
Maria Persson
Non-main Clause Combining in Damascene Arabic:
A scale of markedness
Clause Combining in Written Arabic
Michal Marmorstein
The Domain of Verbal Circumstantial Clauses in Classical Arabic
Clause Combining in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. A Clause Combining Approach
Clause Combining in Modern Spoken Aramaic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect
of Zakho
Clause Combining in Epigraphic South Arabian
Jan Retsö
The Problem of Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC) in Sabaean
Clause Combining in East Semitic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in Old Babylonian Akkadian
Index of terms
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in cooperation between th... more The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in cooperation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project. Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages. (Less)
Page 1. ABHANDLUNGEN FUR DIE KUNDE DES MORGENLANDES Band 70 Bo Isaksson. Helene Kammensjo. Maria ... more Page 1. ABHANDLUNGEN FUR DIE KUNDE DES MORGENLANDES Band 70 Bo Isaksson. Helene Kammensjo. Maria Persson Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic The case of Arabic and Hebrew Edited by Bo Isaksson Deutsche ...
This paper presents arguments for a re-analysis of the b-prefix in Gulf Arabic dialects. Similar ... more This paper presents arguments for a re-analysis of the b-prefix in Gulf Arabic dialects. Similar to several other dialects, Gulf Arabic possesses a b-prefix that is inserted before the p-stem (prefix form) of the verb. However, the Gulf Arabic b-prefix differs substantially from the one encountered in other Arabic dialects. According to most previous studies, the Gulf Arabic b-prefix encodes future tense or intentive mood or a combination of these. Based on a thorough survey of the use of this particle in modern speech, I suggest that it is used in Gulf Arabic today as a generalized marker of the irrealis mood rather than being limited to function as a future/intentive marker. Futurity is one––but not the only or necessarily the most important one––of its connotations. Meanwhile, another marker, rāḥ, emerges as an obvious future marker in some parts of the dialectal area. Introduction1 The Levantine and Egyptian dialects of Arabic possess a b-prefix that is inserted before the p-ste...
This paper aims at shedding light on one aspect of Gulf Arabic syntax viz. the dialect’s use of c... more This paper aims at shedding light on one aspect of Gulf Arabic syntax viz. the dialect’s use of circumstantial qualifiers. The results presented draw from a project on circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic languages where Gulf Arabic is one of the varieties of Arabic under study. 1 This study of circumstantial qualifiers subsumes adverbial qualifiers on phrase, clause and discourse levels and is thus concerned with a broader concept than what is traditionally understood by circumstantial (so called haal) clauses in Arabic. 2 The aim in adopting a broader perspective on circumstantial (adverbial) qualifiers is to find more general principles governing adverbial qualifiers above the level of simple phrases in Semitic languages in general. As for the Arabic dialect part of the study, the goal is to determine what expressions adverbial qualifiers at all levels assume in Gulf Arabic dialects. The survey of circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic languages in general has proved to be a case s...
Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages Proceedings of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages Kivik Sweden 5 7 August 2012, 2014
Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic the Case of Arabic and Hebrew, 2009
... borrowVp3fp half half bag DEF-dates 'they would trav... more ... borrowVp3fp half half bag DEF-dates 'they would travel to the coasts and Basra, my son,[while we were small] and our mothers would borrow for us on credit half half half a bag of dates' (9) fa ingulu-na [ana umr-i taqriban fi-l-hamstasar sine] ingulu-na ila gumera (AED 08.44) so ...
This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, K... more This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Kivik, Sweden, 5-7 August 2012. A strong incentive for the symposium was the renewed interest, in recent years, in the nature of non-main clause linking. Current research has brought into focus the concept of a main line and digressions from the main line in various discourse types. The conference invited papers on all related topics with emphasis on “ways of combining clauses other than through relative clause and complement clause constructions”. The editors are proud to present this original research for the first time to the international audience. Contents of the volume: Clause linking in Arabic dialects Heléne Kammensjö: Circumstantial Clause Combining in Oral Egyptian Arabic: A preliminary report covering aspects of asyndesis and auxiliation Maria Persson: Non-Main Clause Linking and Verb Form Switch in Syrian Arabic: Is there a circumstantial clause? Clause linking in written Arabic Hans Lagerqvist: Convergent Syntax in Modern Standard Arabic: Indefinite relative clauses and asyndetic ḥāl clauses Michal Marmorstein: Verbal Syntax and Textual Structure in Classical Arabic Prose Clause linking in Biblical Hebrew Gregor Geiger: Constructions which Precede the wayyiqṭōl Chain in Biblical Hebrew Bo Isaksson: Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry: The Linking of Finite Clauses Reinhard G. Lehmann: “Since, while and whilst I am a poor man.” The Legacy of Diethelm Michel’s Nominal-Clause Syntax as Applied to a Wider Field of 1st Millennium BCE Northwest Semitic Alviero Niccacci: Background Constructions inside the Main Line in Biblical Hebrew Frank Polak: The Circumstantial Clause as Trigger: Syntax, discourse and plot structure in biblical narrative Clause linking in Ethio-Semitic Lutz Edzard: Complex predicates and Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC): Serial Verbs and Converbs in a Comparative Semitic Perspective Clause linking in East Semitic Eran Cohen: The Domain: A Formal Syntactic Unit Above Sentence Level
CHAPTER NINE SEMANTIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES OF COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN MODERN ... more CHAPTER NINE SEMANTIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES OF COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN MODERN LITERARY ARABIC Maria Persson " There are significant correlations between semantic classes of matrix verbs... and the type of occurring ...
Satser i objektsposition i modern standardarabiska. MODERN STANDARDARABISKA Arabiska talas idag a... more Satser i objektsposition i modern standardarabiska. MODERN STANDARDARABISKA Arabiska talas idag av ca 200 miljoner människor från Marocko och Mauretanien i väster till Irak och Oman i öster. De talade varianterna av språket skiljer sig åt ganska mycket, men man har ett ...
This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, K... more This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Kivik, Sweden, 5-7 August 2012. A strong incentive for the symposium was the renewed interest, in recent years, in the nature of non-main clause linking. Current research has brought into focus the concept of a main line and digressions from the main line in various discourse types. The conference invited papers on all related topics with emphasis on “ways of combining clauses other than through relative clause and complement clause constructions”.
The editors are proud to present this original research for the first time to the international audience.
Contents of the volume:
Clause linking in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö: Circumstantial Clause Combining in Oral Egyptian Arabic: A preliminary report covering aspects of asyndesis and auxiliation
Maria Persson: Non-Main Clause Linking and Verb Form Switch in Syrian Arabic: Is there a circumstantial clause?
Clause linking in written Arabic
Hans Lagerqvist: Convergent Syntax in Modern Standard Arabic: Indefinite relative clauses and asyndetic ḥāl clauses
Michal Marmorstein: Verbal Syntax and Textual Structure in Classical Arabic Prose
Clause linking in Biblical Hebrew
Gregor Geiger: Constructions which Precede the wayyiqṭōl Chain in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson: Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry: The Linking of Finite Clauses
Reinhard G. Lehmann: “Since, while and whilst I am a poor man.” The Legacy of Diethelm Michel’s Nominal-Clause Syntax as Applied to a Wider Field of 1st Millennium BCE Northwest Semitic
Alviero Niccacci: Background Constructions inside the Main Line in Biblical Hebrew
Frank Polak: The Circumstantial Clause as Trigger: Syntax, discourse and plot structure in biblical narrative
Clause linking in Ethio-Semitic
Lutz Edzard: Complex predicates and Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC): Serial Verbs and Converbs in a Comparative Semitic Perspective
Clause linking in East Semitic
Eran Cohen: The Domain: A Formal Syntactic Unit Above Sentence Level
Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Mari... more Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond, edited by Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 96. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015.
418 pages. ISBN 978-3-447-10405-0.
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_947.ahtml
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in co-operation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusa-lem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project.
Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages.
Contents of the volume:
Clause Combining in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö
Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration
Maria Persson
Non-main Clause Combining in Damascene Arabic:
A scale of markedness
Clause Combining in Written Arabic
Michal Marmorstein
The Domain of Verbal Circumstantial Clauses in Classical Arabic
Clause Combining in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. A Clause Combining Approach
Clause Combining in Modern Spoken Aramaic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect
of Zakho
Clause Combining in Epigraphic South Arabian
Jan Retsö
The Problem of Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC) in Sabaean
Clause Combining in East Semitic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in Old Babylonian Akkadian
Index of terms
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in cooperation between th... more The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in cooperation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project. Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages. (Less)
Page 1. ABHANDLUNGEN FUR DIE KUNDE DES MORGENLANDES Band 70 Bo Isaksson. Helene Kammensjo. Maria ... more Page 1. ABHANDLUNGEN FUR DIE KUNDE DES MORGENLANDES Band 70 Bo Isaksson. Helene Kammensjo. Maria Persson Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic The case of Arabic and Hebrew Edited by Bo Isaksson Deutsche ...
This paper presents arguments for a re-analysis of the b-prefix in Gulf Arabic dialects. Similar ... more This paper presents arguments for a re-analysis of the b-prefix in Gulf Arabic dialects. Similar to several other dialects, Gulf Arabic possesses a b-prefix that is inserted before the p-stem (prefix form) of the verb. However, the Gulf Arabic b-prefix differs substantially from the one encountered in other Arabic dialects. According to most previous studies, the Gulf Arabic b-prefix encodes future tense or intentive mood or a combination of these. Based on a thorough survey of the use of this particle in modern speech, I suggest that it is used in Gulf Arabic today as a generalized marker of the irrealis mood rather than being limited to function as a future/intentive marker. Futurity is one––but not the only or necessarily the most important one––of its connotations. Meanwhile, another marker, rāḥ, emerges as an obvious future marker in some parts of the dialectal area. Introduction1 The Levantine and Egyptian dialects of Arabic possess a b-prefix that is inserted before the p-ste...
This paper aims at shedding light on one aspect of Gulf Arabic syntax viz. the dialect’s use of c... more This paper aims at shedding light on one aspect of Gulf Arabic syntax viz. the dialect’s use of circumstantial qualifiers. The results presented draw from a project on circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic languages where Gulf Arabic is one of the varieties of Arabic under study. 1 This study of circumstantial qualifiers subsumes adverbial qualifiers on phrase, clause and discourse levels and is thus concerned with a broader concept than what is traditionally understood by circumstantial (so called haal) clauses in Arabic. 2 The aim in adopting a broader perspective on circumstantial (adverbial) qualifiers is to find more general principles governing adverbial qualifiers above the level of simple phrases in Semitic languages in general. As for the Arabic dialect part of the study, the goal is to determine what expressions adverbial qualifiers at all levels assume in Gulf Arabic dialects. The survey of circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic languages in general has proved to be a case s...
Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages Proceedings of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages Kivik Sweden 5 7 August 2012, 2014
Circumstantial Qualifiers in Semitic the Case of Arabic and Hebrew, 2009
... borrowVp3fp half half bag DEF-dates 'they would trav... more ... borrowVp3fp half half bag DEF-dates 'they would travel to the coasts and Basra, my son,[while we were small] and our mothers would borrow for us on credit half half half a bag of dates' (9) fa ingulu-na [ana umr-i taqriban fi-l-hamstasar sine] ingulu-na ila gumera (AED 08.44) so ...
This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, K... more This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Kivik, Sweden, 5-7 August 2012. A strong incentive for the symposium was the renewed interest, in recent years, in the nature of non-main clause linking. Current research has brought into focus the concept of a main line and digressions from the main line in various discourse types. The conference invited papers on all related topics with emphasis on “ways of combining clauses other than through relative clause and complement clause constructions”. The editors are proud to present this original research for the first time to the international audience. Contents of the volume: Clause linking in Arabic dialects Heléne Kammensjö: Circumstantial Clause Combining in Oral Egyptian Arabic: A preliminary report covering aspects of asyndesis and auxiliation Maria Persson: Non-Main Clause Linking and Verb Form Switch in Syrian Arabic: Is there a circumstantial clause? Clause linking in written Arabic Hans Lagerqvist: Convergent Syntax in Modern Standard Arabic: Indefinite relative clauses and asyndetic ḥāl clauses Michal Marmorstein: Verbal Syntax and Textual Structure in Classical Arabic Prose Clause linking in Biblical Hebrew Gregor Geiger: Constructions which Precede the wayyiqṭōl Chain in Biblical Hebrew Bo Isaksson: Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry: The Linking of Finite Clauses Reinhard G. Lehmann: “Since, while and whilst I am a poor man.” The Legacy of Diethelm Michel’s Nominal-Clause Syntax as Applied to a Wider Field of 1st Millennium BCE Northwest Semitic Alviero Niccacci: Background Constructions inside the Main Line in Biblical Hebrew Frank Polak: The Circumstantial Clause as Trigger: Syntax, discourse and plot structure in biblical narrative Clause linking in Ethio-Semitic Lutz Edzard: Complex predicates and Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC): Serial Verbs and Converbs in a Comparative Semitic Perspective Clause linking in East Semitic Eran Cohen: The Domain: A Formal Syntactic Unit Above Sentence Level
CHAPTER NINE SEMANTIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES OF COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN MODERN ... more CHAPTER NINE SEMANTIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES OF COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN MODERN LITERARY ARABIC Maria Persson " There are significant correlations between semantic classes of matrix verbs... and the type of occurring ...
Satser i objektsposition i modern standardarabiska. MODERN STANDARDARABISKA Arabiska talas idag a... more Satser i objektsposition i modern standardarabiska. MODERN STANDARDARABISKA Arabiska talas idag av ca 200 miljoner människor från Marocko och Mauretanien i väster till Irak och Oman i öster. De talade varianterna av språket skiljer sig åt ganska mycket, men man har ett ...
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The editors are proud to present this original research for the first time to the international audience.
Contents of the volume:
Clause linking in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö: Circumstantial Clause Combining in Oral Egyptian Arabic: A preliminary report covering aspects of asyndesis and auxiliation
Maria Persson: Non-Main Clause Linking and Verb Form Switch in Syrian Arabic: Is there a circumstantial clause?
Clause linking in written Arabic
Hans Lagerqvist: Convergent Syntax in Modern Standard Arabic: Indefinite relative clauses and asyndetic ḥāl clauses
Michal Marmorstein: Verbal Syntax and Textual Structure in Classical Arabic Prose
Clause linking in Biblical Hebrew
Gregor Geiger: Constructions which Precede the wayyiqṭōl Chain in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson: Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry: The Linking of Finite Clauses
Reinhard G. Lehmann: “Since, while and whilst I am a poor man.” The Legacy of Diethelm Michel’s Nominal-Clause Syntax as Applied to a Wider Field of 1st Millennium BCE Northwest Semitic
Alviero Niccacci: Background Constructions inside the Main Line in Biblical Hebrew
Frank Polak: The Circumstantial Clause as Trigger: Syntax, discourse and plot structure in biblical narrative
Clause linking in Ethio-Semitic
Lutz Edzard: Complex predicates and Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC): Serial Verbs and Converbs in a Comparative Semitic Perspective
Clause linking in East Semitic
Eran Cohen: The Domain: A Formal Syntactic Unit Above Sentence Level
418 pages. ISBN 978-3-447-10405-0.
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_947.ahtml
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in co-operation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusa-lem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project.
Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages.
Contents of the volume:
Clause Combining in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö
Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration
Maria Persson
Non-main Clause Combining in Damascene Arabic:
A scale of markedness
Clause Combining in Written Arabic
Michal Marmorstein
The Domain of Verbal Circumstantial Clauses in Classical Arabic
Clause Combining in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. A Clause Combining Approach
Clause Combining in Modern Spoken Aramaic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect
of Zakho
Clause Combining in Epigraphic South Arabian
Jan Retsö
The Problem of Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC) in Sabaean
Clause Combining in East Semitic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in Old Babylonian Akkadian
Index of terms
Papers by Maria Persson
The editors are proud to present this original research for the first time to the international audience.
Contents of the volume:
Clause linking in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö: Circumstantial Clause Combining in Oral Egyptian Arabic: A preliminary report covering aspects of asyndesis and auxiliation
Maria Persson: Non-Main Clause Linking and Verb Form Switch in Syrian Arabic: Is there a circumstantial clause?
Clause linking in written Arabic
Hans Lagerqvist: Convergent Syntax in Modern Standard Arabic: Indefinite relative clauses and asyndetic ḥāl clauses
Michal Marmorstein: Verbal Syntax and Textual Structure in Classical Arabic Prose
Clause linking in Biblical Hebrew
Gregor Geiger: Constructions which Precede the wayyiqṭōl Chain in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson: Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry: The Linking of Finite Clauses
Reinhard G. Lehmann: “Since, while and whilst I am a poor man.” The Legacy of Diethelm Michel’s Nominal-Clause Syntax as Applied to a Wider Field of 1st Millennium BCE Northwest Semitic
Alviero Niccacci: Background Constructions inside the Main Line in Biblical Hebrew
Frank Polak: The Circumstantial Clause as Trigger: Syntax, discourse and plot structure in biblical narrative
Clause linking in Ethio-Semitic
Lutz Edzard: Complex predicates and Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC): Serial Verbs and Converbs in a Comparative Semitic Perspective
Clause linking in East Semitic
Eran Cohen: The Domain: A Formal Syntactic Unit Above Sentence Level
418 pages. ISBN 978-3-447-10405-0.
http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_947.ahtml
The volume presents the results of an international project carried out in co-operation between the Uppsala University, the Hebrew University in Jerusa-lem, Lund University and the University of Gothenburg. The questions put forward in the project were: How is hypotaxis marked in Semitic, other than by conjunctions? How does this affect the organization of texts? More specifically, what constitutes a circumstantial clause? To find an answer to these questions, all the major Semitic language families and some modern spoken Semitic dialects were surveyed within the project.
Thus, Clause Combining in Semitic: The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond examines how different kinds of clauses combine to a text in a number of Semitic languages (Ethio-Semitic not included). Specifically, many of its chapters examine how circumstantial clauses are coded in individual Semitic languages.
Contents of the volume:
Clause Combining in Arabic dialects
Heléne Kammensjö
Circumstantial Clause Linking in Egyptian Arabic Narration
Maria Persson
Non-main Clause Combining in Damascene Arabic:
A scale of markedness
Clause Combining in Written Arabic
Michal Marmorstein
The Domain of Verbal Circumstantial Clauses in Classical Arabic
Clause Combining in Biblical Hebrew
Bo Isaksson
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. A Clause Combining Approach
Clause Combining in Modern Spoken Aramaic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect
of Zakho
Clause Combining in Epigraphic South Arabian
Jan Retsö
The Problem of Circumstantial Clause Combining (CCC) in Sabaean
Clause Combining in East Semitic
Eran Cohen
Circumstantial Clause Combining in Old Babylonian Akkadian
Index of terms