Outputs (12)

The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts (2019)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2019). The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 113(1), 139-150. https://doi.org/10.3917/assy.113.0139

Word-order in Akkadian is generally described as SOV, and although other word-orders than SOV are visible in texts when they are examined individually, trends over an entire corpus remain difficult to establish. Buccellati (1996: 396) recommended tha... Read More about The Accusative-Initial Sentence in YOS 10 omen texts.

Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses (2019)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2019). Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 2018/1(112), 91-101. https://doi.org/10.3917/assy.112.0091

The present article proposes a reassessment of the “casus pendens” categorisation based on Arabic grammatical theory and its focus on sentence structure. Structures traditionally described as ‘casus pendens’ sentences, abbreviated here as nom + nom-s... Read More about Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses.