Clause Combining in Semitic

The Circumstantial Clause and Beyond

edited by Bo Isaksson and Maria Persson

Book cover: Clause Combining in Semitic

Extent: 418 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Language & Linguistics

Series: Abhandlungen fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes

Series volume number: 96

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(April 2015)

ISBN: 9783447104050

5.71 x 8.62 inches

Price: $95.00

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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.


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.

Editors' preface Clause Combining in Arabic dialects Helene Kammensjo 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 Retso 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

  • Edited by Bo Isaksson
  • Edited by Maria Persson

"...This volume [is] an important landmark in Semitic linguistics and probably also in wider frameworks. For the Hebraist this is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the position of the circumstantial clause within the clause complex, in particular to view the circumstanstial clause, one of the most important phenomena in biblical narrative, in the vista of various types of Arabic texts." --Frank H. Polak, Tel Aviv University, Review of Biblical Literature 7.28.16
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