%0 Book
%A Michael B. Shepherd
%D 2007
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781453907603
%T The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic
%B A Distributional Approach
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-0760-3
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050817
%X 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 volume is an indispensable resource for courses in Biblical Aramaic and for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Biblical Aramaic corpus.
%K Aramäisch, Linguistic, Bible, Bibel, Verb, Distribution (Linguistik), Language, Aramaic, Grammar, Syntax, Database
%G English