From a4a157680d1eabd7bcf8467569b3790740ae4dbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Camil Staps Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 13:34:43 +0300 Subject: Start Gzella --- gzella-handout.tex | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gzella-handout.tex diff --git a/gzella-handout.tex b/gzella-handout.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6be1b8b --- /dev/null +++ b/gzella-handout.tex @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +\documentclass[a4paper]{article} + +\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} +\usepackage[top=2cm]{geometry} +\usepackage[font=small]{caption} +\usepackage{handouts} + +\usepackage{polyglossia} +\setdefaultlanguage{british} +\setotherlanguage{hebrew} +\newfontfamily\dutchfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Latin Modern Roman} +\newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Ezra SIL} +\DeclareTextFontCommand{\ez}{\hebrewfont} + +\usepackage{stfloats} +\usepackage{subcaption} +\usepackage{enumitem} + +\title{\large Handout of ``Voice in Classical Hebrew against Its Semitic Background''\footnote{Holger Gzella in \emph{Orientalia} (2009).}} +\author{Camil Staps} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +Semitic languages generally express the semantic distinction between active and non-active using \term{verbal stems}\pagenr{292}. +There is a base stem (the \term{G-stem}) and three principal derived stems: + the \term{D-stem}, where the middle root consonant is lengthened; + the \term{C-stem}, which expresses causativity; and + the \term{N-stem}, which has a prefix starting with /n-/ + and at least in some cases serves as the medio-passive of the G-stem\pagenrs{293--4}. +An infix /t/ may be used to indicate reflexivity, reciprocality or medio-passiveness. +Many verbs derived from nouns do not occur in the G-stem. +Also, over time, usage often tends to shift away from the G-stem. +Therefore, the description in this paragraph is very rough\pagenr{296}. + +In Central Semitic languages\note{Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Arabic, and others}, + \term{internal passives} (where the consonantal skeleton remains unchanged) of the G, D and C stems exist\pagenr{297}. +\parnote{For an overview of the functions associated to the different stems, see p.~300.} + +In Hebrew, the Gt and Ct stems seem to have disappeared, + the internal passive Gp only survives in residual forms + but the other (medio-)passive and reflexive stems\note{N, Dt, Dp, Cp} remain\pagenr{303}. +The surviving forms seem to have absorbed some of the functions of the abolished ones. + +\end{document} -- cgit v1.2.3