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A Reevaluation of the Semitic Direct Object Markers
- Hebrew Studies
- National Association of Professors of Hebrew
- Volume 57, 2016
- pp. 7-15
- 10.1353/hbr.2016.0000
- Article
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This paper aims to clarify the relationship between the superficially similar direct object markers attested in Modern South Arabian, Ge’ez, Arabic, Aramaic, Samalian, Hebrew, and Phoenician. I argue that the direct object markers in Aramaic and the Canaanite languages derive from a single innovative form, which I reconstruct as *ʾayāt-. I further claim that the remaining forms are unrelated.