Na’ama Pat-El

Biographic Data

ID2643858
NAMENa’ama Pat-El
GIVEN NAMESNa’ama
FAMILY NAMEPat-El
SIGNATUREPAT-EL N
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
ORCID0000-0002-7768-0476
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Semitic "Perfect" and the Problem of the Third Person Zero Morpheme

    Na’ama Pat-El, Na''Ama Pat-El et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2025

    In many languages, third person forms in a verbal paradigm are unmarked, and scholars have suggested that such cases are either a result of loss or nondevelopment. In this article I will argue that in the perfect/stative paradigm in Semitic, the third person morphology is a result of nondevelopment. I suggest that these forms are constructed as predicative adjectives, without person markers, because Semitic never developed third person nominative…

  • Existential Angst

    Øyvind Bjøru, Na’ama Pat-ElARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2024References: 17

  • Curious Case of the Vanished Coordinative Conjunction in Neo-Assyrian

    Øyvind Bjøru, Na’ama Pat-El et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2024

    While most Akkadian dialects use two coordinators, a phrase and clause level u= and a clause level =ma, in the Neo-Assyrian period both are mostly missing from native Assyrian texts. Not only is lack of overt coordination exceptional among the Semitic languages, cross-linguistically asyndeton is a rare strategy, only attested in languages with no writing tradition. In this paper, we will concentrate on u=. We sketch the various environments where…

  • On the Akkadian adjectival masculine plural -ūtonce again

    Open AccessNa’ama Pat-El, Na''Ama Pat-El et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2022Cited by: 1References: 10

    Assyriologists and Semitists have assumed that the attributive masculine plural morpheme -ūtfound in Akkadian is a secondary development in analogy with the feminine plural -āt. In this paper I suggest that this morpheme should be reconstructed to Proto-Semitic. My arguments are based on some attributive pronouns in West Semitic and the existence of a distinction between attributive and predicative plural morphology in both branches of Semitic

  • Features of Aramaeo-Canaanite

    Na’ama Pat-El, Na''Ama Pat-El et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2021References: 2

    One of the sub-branches of Central Semitic, Northwest Semitic, contains a number of languages with no established hierarchical relation among them: Ugaritic, Aramaic, Canaanite, Deir Alla, and Samalian. Over the years, scholars have attempted to establish a more accurate sub-branching for Northwest Semitic or to suggest a different genetic affiliation for some languages, usually Ugaritic. In this paper, we will argue that Aramaic and Canaanite sh…

  • On the Alleged Unipartite Relatives in Semitic

    Na’ama Pat-El, Pat-El Pat-ElARTICLEZeitschrift der Deutschen…2020

    In a recent paper, Cohen (2018) suggested that nominal sentences without overt subjects are a regular and common part of Semitic grammar. More specifically, he suggested that some arguments in Semitic relative clauses are gapped, namely are missing on a regular basis. This, he argued, is especially common in relative clauses where the predicate is a prepositional phrase. In the current paper, I argue that relative clauses exhibit the same syntax …

  • The Historical Syntax of the Subordinative Morphemes in Assyrian Akkadian

    Øyvind Bjøru, Na’ama Pat-ElARTICLEZeitschrift für Assyriologie und…2020

    The Assyrian subordinative morphemes - u /- ni are treated as allomorphs with the same distribution and function. In this paper we will examine the syntax of these morphemes in Assyrian and argue that they are in fact two distinct morphemes with no allomorphic relation. We will further follow a number of significant syntactic developments in the use of the subordinative morphemes in Neo-Assyrian

  • The origin of the Semitic relative marker

    Open AccessJohn Huehnergard, Na’ama Pat-El et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2018Cited by: 3References: 21

    All Semitic languages use a relative marker as at least one strategy of relativization, and all branches show reflexes or relics of reflexes of an interdental relative marker. The wide consensus that the relative pronoun was originally identical to the proximal demonstrative is based on the formal identity between the bases of the two in West Semitic, and on the wide attestation of the process Demonstrative > Relative in world languages. In this …

  • Introduction

    Open AccessP Epps, John Huehnergard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Language Contact2013Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Contact or Inheritance? Criteria for distinguishing internal and external change in genetically related languages

    Open AccessNa’ama Pat-ElARTICLEJournal of Language Contact2013Cited by: 2References: 5

    Several prominent scholars have recently doubted whether it is possible to differentiate borrowing from internal change, to the point that in some cases subgrouping is not feasible or is restricted (Dench, 2001; Dixon, 2001). Since a situation of prolonged and intense contact between closely related languages is very common, language contact and its results are a major problem if not a real hazard to historical linguistics. The main practical pro…

  • The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr (review)

    Na’ama Pat-ElARTICLEAnthropological linguistics2012

    Reviewed by: The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr Na’ama Pat-El The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr. Charles G. Häberl. Semitica Viva 45. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. Pp. xxxiv + 378. €78 (hardcover). Modern dialects of Aramaic have attracted serious linguistic attention only in the last decade, although their study has been conducted for over a century. Despite their obvious interest for both linguists and anthropologists, they h…