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" The Semantics of a Semitic Ventive in Cognitive Perspective: "
Fix, S. A.
Gross, Andrew D.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1110756
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TLpq2490536195
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Fix, S. A.
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Gross, Andrew D.
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The Semantics of a Semitic Ventive in Cognitive Perspective:\ Fix, S. A.Gross, Andrew D.
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The Catholic University of America
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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549
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| Abstract
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In recent years a growing realization has coalesced among comparative Semitists that the ventive/energic verbal endings evidenced throughout the various Semitic languages should be related to each other as retentions of an ancestral Proto-Semitic (PS) ventive/energic verbal morpheme. While the exact form of the morpheme and its semantic/pragmatic function are still being debated, the reconstruction of such a verbal morpheme has far-reaching implications for our understanding of the verbal systems in every descendant language, including Akkadian and Biblical Hebrew (BH). In order to apply these implications, however, a better understanding of how a Semitic ventive would have functioned will be necessary. Toward that end, the function and meaning of a Semitic ventive are developed within a Cognitive Linguistic (CL) framework through inductive study of Akkadian’s ventive morphology and a cross-linguistic study of ventive morphemes that exist in other world languages. It is argued somewhat deductively based on this cross-linguistic research that ventive morphemes function together with the inherent lexical semantics of different verb types (MOTION, TRANSFER, STATIVE, and FIENTIVE). This insight is then shown to offer a better understanding of the meaning(s) of the Akkadian ventive, especially when used with non-motion verbs.
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Ancient languages
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Linguistics
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