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Insubordination in Modern South Arabian

A common isogloss with Ethiosemitic?

Abstract

The term ‘insubordination’ is used to describe the case of a subordinate verb becoming the main verb of a sentence. In Modern South Arabian (MSA) a relative verb without an antecedent may act as the finite verb of an independent sentence. The MSA main relative verb is analyzed as the equivalent of an active participle together with copula zero, which leads to a comparison with Amharic and other modern Ethiosemitic (ES) languages in which a relative verb, followed by the copula – mandatory in these languages – is often used as the main predicate. After a review of the main points of convergence between modern ES and MSA in general, the function of the ES relative, plus copula, is analyzed as static predication as opposed to the dynamic predication of the ordinary verb. It appears in introductory passages of a literary text where the characteristics of the main character are presented.

Abstract

The term ‘insubordination’ is used to describe the case of a subordinate verb becoming the main verb of a sentence. In Modern South Arabian (MSA) a relative verb without an antecedent may act as the finite verb of an independent sentence. The MSA main relative verb is analyzed as the equivalent of an active participle together with copula zero, which leads to a comparison with Amharic and other modern Ethiosemitic (ES) languages in which a relative verb, followed by the copula – mandatory in these languages – is often used as the main predicate. After a review of the main points of convergence between modern ES and MSA in general, the function of the ES relative, plus copula, is analyzed as static predication as opposed to the dynamic predication of the ordinary verb. It appears in introductory passages of a literary text where the characteristics of the main character are presented.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction
  4. Afroasiatic 1
  5. Part I. Afroasiatic
  6. Did Proto-Afroasiatic have marked nominative or nominative-accusative alignment? 11
  7. The limits and potentials of cladistics in Semitic 23
  8. Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowing 41
  9. Part II. Forms and functions
  10. Reconsidering the ‘perfect’–‘imperfect’ opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system 61
  11. The imperfective in Berber 85
  12. Condition, interrogation and exception 105
  13. The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic 131
  14. Part III. Predication and beyond
  15. Insubordination in Modern South Arabian 153
  16. Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic) 167
  17. The characterization of conditional patterns in Old Babylonian Akkadian 185
  18. Locative predication in Chadic 203
  19. Unipartite clauses 235
  20. The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber) 261
  21. Index 287
Afroasiatic
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Afroasiatic
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.339.09kap

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction
  4. Afroasiatic 1
  5. Part I. Afroasiatic
  6. Did Proto-Afroasiatic have marked nominative or nominative-accusative alignment? 11
  7. The limits and potentials of cladistics in Semitic 23
  8. Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowing 41
  9. Part II. Forms and functions
  10. Reconsidering the ‘perfect’–‘imperfect’ opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system 61
  11. The imperfective in Berber 85
  12. Condition, interrogation and exception 105
  13. The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic 131
  14. Part III. Predication and beyond
  15. Insubordination in Modern South Arabian 153
  16. Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic) 167
  17. The characterization of conditional patterns in Old Babylonian Akkadian 185
  18. Locative predication in Chadic 203
  19. Unipartite clauses 235
  20. The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber) 261
  21. Index 287
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