A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature - enenuru
A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature - enenuru
A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature - enenuru
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<strong>Ugaritic</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Primer</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
texts, c<strong>on</strong>text is everything (CIE) inorder to differentiate these two<br />
verb forms. The original speakers may have differentiated these<br />
two forms by stress, i.e., the stress in the jussive perhaps fell back<br />
to the first syllable as in Hebrew. Note, for example the difference<br />
in stress between Deut 25:9 hRnVbˆy<br />
in c<strong>on</strong>trast to Ezek 1:3 NRbGˆyw.<br />
G Prefix C<strong>on</strong>jugati<strong>on</strong>: Injunctive: Jussive (PC S j)<br />
Singular Dual Plural<br />
3ms yaqtul y/taqtulaœ taqtuluœ<br />
3fs taqtul taqtulaœ taqtulnaœ ?<br />
2ms taqtul taqtulaœ taqtuluœ<br />
2fs taqtulˆä taqtulaœ taqtulnaœ ?<br />
1cs }aqtul naqtulaœ ? naqtul<br />
7.6.12 Volitive (PC S e)<br />
The name of this extended short form, having to do with the will,<br />
indicates its focus <strong>on</strong> expressing a wish or desire; thus, yaqtula, “let<br />
him kill.”<br />
G Prefix C<strong>on</strong>jugati<strong>on</strong>: Injunctive: Volitive (PC S e)<br />
Singular Dual Plural<br />
3ms yaqtula y/taqtulaœ taqtuluœ<br />
3fs taqtula taqtulaœ taqtulna ?<br />
2ms taqtula taqtulaœ taqtuluœ<br />
2fs taqtulˆä taqtulna ?<br />
1cs }aqtula naqtulaœ ? naqtula<br />
7.6.13 “Energic”<br />
On the basis of Canaanite forms in the el-Amarna corresp<strong>on</strong>dence<br />
we may hypothesize that there were two formally differentiated<br />
types of the energic mood—the indicative <strong>and</strong> the injunctive (see
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