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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Maksim G.KalininSergeyLoesovA History of the Passive in Pre-modern Aramaic: An Outlinehttp://syriaca.org/cbss/BTC95FFNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/BTC95FFNhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/BTC95FFNJournal of Semitic Studies67:22022471-516In Proto-Aramaic, the passive of transitive verbs belonging to all three principal stems—G, D and C—was formed internally. Some verbs of the G- and D-stems also possessed detransitive derivatives. Transitive verbs of the G-, D- and C-stems lost their internal passives early on, and the passives of G- and D-verbs were encoded by their respective t-stems. Against this general Aramaic picture, in Imperial Aramaic the passive forms of the G-stem were in complementary distribution: the passive Past was encoded by the internal passive of the Suffix Conjugation (Gp SC), while the passive non-Past was rendered by the Gt participle and the Gt Prefix Conjugation. Gp SC stopped being used with Imperial Aramaic once it was replaced, as a written language, by vernacular-based literary varieties. The Ct-stem, non-existent in Imperial Aramaic, must have first emerged among spoken varieties of Aramaic in the first half of the first millennium bce, and only within I-w and II-w/y roots. Within the Imperial Aramaic corpus, both the rare Gt SC passive forms and Ct-stem forms reflect the influence of spoken Aramaic varieties in the diglossic situation. In Syriac, the Ct-stem of sound roots is unattested during its golden age. The Ct-forms of sound roots appeared in original Syriac texts only after the Arab conquest, and these also come from spoken Aramaic varieties.
Kalinin, Maksim G., and Sergey Loesov. “A History of the Passive in Pre-Modern Aramaic: An Outline.” Journal of Semitic Studies 67:2 (2022): 471–516. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgac013.
Maksim G. Kalinin and Sergey Loesov, A History of the Passive in Pre-Modern Aramaic: An Outline,Journal of Semitic Studies 67:2 (2022): 471–516, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgac013.Classical SyriacSyriac languagegrammarsyntaxverb