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From Phrase to Clause: The Active Participle in Ugaritic

Notarius, Tania (2021) From Phrase to Clause: The Active Participle in Ugaritic. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 74 (4). pp. 565-581. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

This paper suggests a morphological, syntactic, and semantic analysis of the active participle in Ugaritic. The formally ambiguous cases are interpreted by taking into account the syntactic and semantic properties of explicit cases. The syntactic usages of the participle are the attributive phrase, the substantivized attributive phrase, the agent-noun, and the circumstantial participial phrase. The semantic analysis points at explicit verbal properties of some participial phrases in Ugaritic: they can denote a stage-level predicative core acquiring episodic interpretations and attaching temporal arguments. I hypothesize that the prototypical context for the development of the predicative participle (sporadically attested in the language of Ugaritic prose and consistently in later Northwest Semitic languages) is a participial phrase that suggests stage-level episodic interpretation and assigns subject that is co-referential with the main-clause subject.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Semantics; history; SYNTAX; Ugaritic; Northwest Semitic languages; active participle;
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában
P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PI Oriental languages and literatures / keleti nyelvek és irodalmak
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 15 Nov 2022 07:17
Last Modified: 31 Dec 2023 00:16
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/153517

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