10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRECATIVE»
Discover the use of
precative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
precative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sanskrit Manual: A Quick-reference Guide to the Phonology ...
PRECATIVE The precative (or benedictive) is recognized as 'a kind of aorist
optative', though in fact it usually has present reference and therefore signifies
much the same as the present optative. It is in any case very rare in Classical
Sanskrit ...
Roderick S. Bucknell,
1994
2
An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
Such a use is known in several of the cognate Semitic languages: in Aramaic,
Arabic, and Ugaritic.22 According to H. L. Ginsberg, "one of the original functions
of the perfect was that of an optative and precative."" S. R. Driver cautioned
against ...
Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O'Connor,
1990
3
Collective Reinterpretation in the Psalms: A Study of the ...
Lindstrom would change the word 13rr3i) to 1n^y, which would be more in
harmony with the word 1nTn1. in 21b.15 I myself regard it as the most natural
alternative to understand ^rnsj as a precative perfect, i.e. the prayer expresses a
matter ...
poses between the two, a pattern emerges which may be summarized as follows:
[Table 2] precative = precative = independent purpose-result with ma interposing
12 + 1? 0 without ma interposing 1 17 p = 0.001 (from chi square test, cf. p.
5
Sargonic Akkadian: A Historical and Comparative Study of the ...
(Di 4: 12) 4.5.4 The precative Babylonian and Assyrian have very distinct
precative forms. In Babylonian, third person forms have the prefix //-, the 1 cs has
lu-, and the 1 cs a marker /, independent of stem. In Assyrian, the prefix of third
person ...
6
A Practical Grammar of the Sanskrit Language for the Use of ...
'to sharpen' (contrary to § 154). m, or regularly m, precative Parasmaipada, from
Q11, ' to dig.' flu, or regularly Il'é'fu, precative Atman, from m, ' to go.' fro U 'to void
excrega'rfw arm-[fit W mfi'q m ' ' ' " ' ment' (con5 ' u ' a L' u 'fmmz'l' traryto§l56).
7
Complete Babylonian: Teach Yourself
precative. The basic meaning of the precative is to express a wish: 'May I become
rich', 'May it really happen', 'Mayshearrive tomorrow', 'May their days be long'.
Accordingly,itis thetenseusedinblessings and curses. Out of the basic meaning of
...
8
American Journal of Philology
precative in the whole later literature, including the epics : that is rtriqiqta, in the
Bhagavata-Purana (III 9, 24), a text notable for its artificial imitation of ancient
forms (the same word occurs also in the Rig-Veda) ; it is made, as will be noticed,
...
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt,
1884
9
Parallels in Semitic Linguistics: The Development of Arabic ...
Table 18: Precative and preterite paradigms: Assyrian dialect pards-um (G-stem)
Precative parrus-um (D-stem) Precative ISg. 1 Pi. 2 Masc. Sg. 2 Fem. Sg. 2 PI. 3
Masc. Sg. 3 Fem. Sg. 3 Masc. PI. 3 Fem. Pi. Adding the /-particle to a vowel-initial
...
10
Alleged Non-past Uses of Qatal in Classical Hebrew
should be analyzed as an expression of deontic modality it fell outside of the
bounds of our study of the indicative functions of qatal4 Nevertheless, many
scholars view the prophetic and precative perfects as related phenomena,5 and
hence ...
Max Frederick Rogland,
2003