On the Pausal or Conjunctive Function of Some Syriac AccentsHugoye: Journal of Syriac StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/TPDRM8NR/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.EmmanuelAïmOn the Pausal or Conjunctive Function of Some Syriac Accentshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/TPDRM8NRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/TPDRM8NRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/TPDRM8NRHugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies27:120241-41There is widespread agreement on the purpose of most of the Syriac accents. Some indicate grammatical features, emotions, or attitudes, while some denote pauses or conjunctions between words. In addition, the accents also symbolize the modulations of the voice. Yet, there is no real consensus on the pausal or conjunctive function of the accents <i>sāmkā, reṯmā, </i>and <i>nāḡōḏā</i>. The present article seeks to shed light on this matter. I explore the two possible functions of these accents by analyzing their placements, arrangements, and prosodic features. I argue for neither a pausal function nor a conjunctive one but for an intonational value only. I focus on the East Syriac tradition of accentuation as represented in the manuscript Mingana syr. 148. The corpus for the investigation is the Peshitta Gospel of Matthew.
Aïm, Emmanuel. “On the Pausal or Conjunctive Function of Some Syriac Accents.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 27:1 (2024): 1–41. https://doi.org/https://hugoye.bethmardutho.org/article/hv27n1aim.
Emmanuel Aïm, On the Pausal or Conjunctive Function of Some Syriac Accents,Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 27:1 (2024): 1–41, https://doi.org/https://hugoye.bethmardutho.org/article/hv27n1aim.