{"product_id":"the-modal-system-of-old-babylonian-9781575069210","title":"The Modal System of Old Babylonian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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:  1. the asseverative paradigm (used for insistence, concession and oath), explaining the syntactic mechanism behind these forms;  2. the various precative-based paradigms in various syntactic conditions: the directive group, the wish group and the interrogative group;  3. the same forms occurring in special syntactic patterns-the sequential precative and the concessive-conditional precative;  4. the paratactic conditional; and  5. the modal nominal syntagm ša para:sim.  Together 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":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188741431639,"sku":"9781575069210","price":40.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-modal-system-of-old-babylonian-9781575069210","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}