{"product_id":"the-modal-system-of-old-babylonian-9781575069210","title":"The Modal System of Old Babylonian","description":"This monograph is a corpus-based description of the modal system of epistolary Old Babylonian, one of the best attested Akkadian dialects, using the European structural method. The study strives to match a concrete exponent (i.e., an array of formal features, morphological and syntactic) with a semantic value, in using syntactic criteria. The book treats:\u003cbr\u003e\n1. the asseverative paradigm (used for insistence, concession and oath), explaining the syntactic mechanism behind these forms;\u003cbr\u003e\n2. the various precative-based paradigms in various syntactic conditions: the directive group, the wish group and the interrogative group;\u003cbr\u003e\n3. the same forms occurring in special syntactic patterns-the sequential precative and the concessive-conditional precative;\u003cbr\u003e\n4. the paratactic conditional; and\u003cbr\u003e\n5. the modal nominal syntagm ša para:sim.\u003cbr\u003e\nTogether with this description, some additional problems are addressed for which solutions are developed: the focus system of Old Babylonian; the general linguistic issue of \"emphatic assertion\" (using an English corpus); and a way to describe the syntactic nature of paratactic conditional structures.","brand":"Eran Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48269423771899,"sku":"9781575069210","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_28f0381d-0453-439f-8a8c-0f51dc51ed5a.jpg?v=1774721466","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-modal-system-of-old-babylonian-9781575069210","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}