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- Title
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND ACCUSATIVE MARKERS IN ANCIENT SEMITIC LANGUAGES.
- Authors
Cohen, Ohad
- Abstract
In this comparative study of ancient Semitic languages, I present data on the development of personal pronouns and accusative markers. My meta-analysis combines what is known about the major representative languages from both East and West Semitic languages in order to focus on three gradual, corresponding developments: (1) the erosion of inflected oblique independent personal pronouns; (2) the disappearance of the case-ending system; and (3) the emergence of the independent object marker. A bird's-eye view of the documented evidence on Semitic languages suggests that in West Semitic languages, both the oblique independent personal pronoun and the case-ending system gradually disappeared. In parallel, a set of object markers was introduced into West Semitic. This process will be shown to progress at a different pace for the various languages in this branch, and to be relevant not only to the North-west Semitic branch, but rather to the span of old West Semitic languages.
- Subjects
PRONOUNS (Grammar); SEMITIC languages; ACCUSATIVE case (Grammar); META-analysis; PHOENICIANS
- Publication
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2018, Vol 63, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0022-4480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jss/fgx034