@inbook{74950119ae9241f4a5f7dfa05d147c4e,
title = "The Characterization of Conditional Patterns in Old Babylonian Akkadian",
abstract = "In this paper, a common paratactic conditional construction, found in the letter corpus of Old Babylonian Akkadian (~18th century bce), is given a syntactic characterization so as to differentiate it from other potential sequences. Several distinctive syntactic and semantic features unique to the construction are iden- tified and discussed: polar lexical resumption between the protasis and its pre- ceding co-text; negative polarity items in the protasis; special semantics of verbal forms; and divergence from the common modal-congruence. In addition, the structural variables are formulated, and eventually the construction itself is com- pared with another construction, the circumstantial construction. ",
keywords = "Akkadian language, Old Babylonian Akkadian dialect, syntax, semantics, parataxis, conditional sentence, negative polarity",
author = "Eran Cohen",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1075/cilt.339.11coh",
language = "אנגלית",
isbn = "9789027200129",
series = "Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "185--202",
editor = "{Tosco }, { Mauro}",
booktitle = "Afroasiatic",
address = "הולנד",
}