TY - BOOK AU - Michael B. Shepherd PY - 2007 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9781453907603 TI - The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic T2 - A Distributional Approach DO - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0760-3 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050817 N2 - 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. KW - Aramäisch, Linguistic, Bible, Bibel, Verb, Distribution (Linguistik), Language, Aramaic, Grammar, Syntax, Database LA - English ER -