Title; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Amarna Letters and Their Study; Chapter 2: The Language of the Amarna Letters from Canaan; Chapter 3: Morphology of the Amarna Verb; Chapter 4: Uses of the Verbal Forms; Chapter 5: Verbs in the Amarna Letters from Canaan from a Systemic Perspective; Conclusions; Appendix 1: The Senders of the Amarna Letters; Appendix 2: The Amarna Letters from Canaan according to Their Provenance; Appendix 3: The Amarna Letters from Canaan Excluded from AnalysisEA; Appendix 4: Cities and Their Letters; Appendix 5: Scribes and Their Letters
Appendix 6: Morphological Terminology and AbbreviationsBibliography; Index of Texts; Index of Words Discussed; Index of Subjects
Summary
"The Amarna letters from Canaan offer us a unique glimpse of the historical and linguistic panorama of the Levant in the middle of the fourteenth century BCE. Their evidence regarding verbs is crucial for the historical and comparative study of the Semitic languages. Proper evaluation of this evidence requires an understanding of its scribal origin and nature. For this reason, The Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan addresses the historical circumstances in which the linguistic code of the letters was born and the unique characteristics of this system."-- Provided by publisher
Notes
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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