An Outline of Middle Voice in Syriac: Evidences of a Linguistic Category

ISBN-13: 9781463201456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 197 str.

Margherita Farina

Opis

This study presents a modern linguistic approach to the function of the Syriac et-verbal prefix. Based on a detailed analysis of a number of early Syriac texts, it proposes a unified account of the different values traditionally attributed to the Syriac et- stems. Farina views the data within a typologically comparative framework derived from a cross-linguistic study of middle conjugations.