Morphology of the G-Stem Imperative in Semitic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5085966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Øyvind Bjøru (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 141 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | American Oriental Society (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7817/jameroriesoci.141.2.0329 |
| OpenAlex | W3166170129 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
I will assess earlier approaches to the morphology of the G-stem imperative in Semitic and mount a reconstruction that supports a specific set of disyllabic patterns for the imperative of the basic stem in Proto-Semitic, i.e., qutul, qitil, and qital. The most common process envisioned for the formation of the imperative is clipping from the prefix conjugation, but the most recent full treatment of the topic is Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal's revision and expansion of a century-old proposal that qatul, qatil, and qital are the patterns of the imperative in Proto-Semitic. I refute both the clipping approach and Bar-Asher's patterns in favor of qutul, qitil, and qital, which are the most economical and precise reconstruction in accounting for the realizations of the imperative in the various branches of Semitic
Arabic · Linguistics · Prefix · Semitic languages · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |