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- Abudraham, Ohad, et al.
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“His Children Destroy the Residence and Building” : An Unpublished Mandaic Amulet on Ptahil’s Creations (MLSC 4)
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In: Orientalia Suecana. - 0078-6578 .- 2001-7324. ; 72, s. 5-21
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article presents the editio princeps of a Mandaean amulet inscribed on a lead lamella (MLSC 4). The amulet contains two formula. The first describes how the children of Ptahil, who are described as “the guardians of the ruins”, wreak havoc in the world. The formula draws heavily on Mandaean lore. The second formula is mostly lost, and only the end survives. The article discusses material aspects of the artefact and provides a full transliteration and translation of its contents, a reconstruction of some broken sections based upon unpublished parallels, and notes that relate to linguistic and literary aspects of the text.
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- Ahangar, Abbas Ali
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A Study of the Verb System in the Sistani Dialect of Persian
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In: Orientalia Suecana. - Uppsala : Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. - 0078-6578 .- 2001-7324. ; 59, s. 5-44
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Sistani dialect, though a dialect of Persian, displays its own manifestations of morpho-syntactic categorieson the verb form. The purpose of this article is to investigate the verb system of the Sistani dialectas spoken in Sistan based on linguistic fieldwork carried out in the village Sekuhe (locally known as Sakvâ)and provide a synchronic description of its verb structure and the realization of verbal morpho-syntacticcategories including agreement, tense, aspect, mood, and voice. The oral texts used as linguistic data,which compose the corpus for describing and analysing the given morpho-syntactic categories for verbsin the Sistani dialect, were extracted from the free speech of 10 males and 10 females between the ages of7 and 85 with different social backgrounds living in Sekuhe. The findings of the present study show thatthe Sistani dialect employs what are basically its own morpho-syntactic elements to manifest agreement,tense, aspect, and voice in its verb system.
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- Andersson, Jakob, 1974-
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Some Cuneiform Texts from the Haldar Collection. Two Old Babylonian Contracts
- 2008
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In: Orientalia Suecana. - 0078-6578 .- 2001-7324. ; 57, s. 5-22
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Two Old Babylonian contracts from a Swedish private collection are published. The known modern history of the contracts is described. The texts are given a historical and geographical context in the Ancient Near East of the Old Babylonian period (ca 2000-1595 BCE). The type of text, the people appearing in them, some administrative procedures and the times in which the contracts were written are discussed.
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- Andrason, Alexander
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The Gnomic qatal
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In: Orientalia Suecana. - Uppsala : Uppsala universitet. - 0078-6578 .- 2001-7324. ; 61, s. 5-53
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The present paper offers a cognitive and typological approximation to the problem of the gnomic qatal. It demonstrates that the gnomic sense of the qatal can be chained to the remaining semantic potential of the gram by making use of certain typological templates or universals, i.e. by so-called gnomic branches of the anterior path. Given that, from a cross-linguistic perfective, certain subtypes of a present perfect (inclusive,frequentative, and experiential perfects, as well as an anti-perfect) naturally generate gnomic extensions (following a development referred to as “gnomic branches”), that the dominant portion of the semantic potential of the qatal covers the domain of a perfect, and finally that all the examples of the BH gnomic qatal (if derived from active roots) may be viewed as generated in prototypical perfect contexts (the gnomic use of the qatal stems from its use as an inclusive, frequentative, experiential, and anti-perfect),the gnomic value of the gram may be cognitively (both conceptually and diachronically) chained to the remaining sphere of its semantic network by employing the “gnomic branch” linkage. In this manner,the gnomic value ceases to be aberrant and, on the contrary, becomes a fully rational component of the semantic potential of the gram. As a result, we propose a model (a map) that in a more consistent and more holistic manner represents the semantics of the entire qatal category; it accounts for all the senses, the gnomic values included.
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