TY - JOUR
AU - Lecker, Michael
AB - reviews of Mrs Kramer (pp. 107–10), the Berber lexicon and Semitic are also dealt with on pp. 182–5, but they refer only to lexicography, while the other chapters lack such sections. The terminology used in the chapter on Berber is confusing, especially the ‘con- struct state’ designating the casus agens. For instance, in a-wal u-maziġ, ‘the word of a Berber’, the ‘construct state’ is u-maziġ, while the Semitic appellation ‘construct state’ would apply to a-wal, which is a casus patiens or ‘free state’. The acting ele- ment of the phrase is obviously ‘a Berber’ (casus agens), while ‘the word’ is the product of his activity (casus patiens). Also the Ge‛ez construct state ends in -a, which corresponds exactly to the casus patiens and is a reflex of the original ergative structure of Afro-Asiatic. In Cushitic, the interpretation based on a current opinion may even obliterate a possible parallelism with Semitic. For instance, David Apple- yard notices in a footnote that Beja n-infix of the present in prefix-inflecting verbs may be totally assimilated to the following consonant, e.g. ’abbiís (p. 218, n. 7), but assimilation of n to b is usually partial and results in the form ’ambiís, while dialectal 
TI - Dan Gibson, The Qurʾanic Geography: A Survey and Evaluation of the Geographical References in the Qurʾān with Suggested Solutions for Various Problems and Issues.
JF - Journal of Semitic Studies
DO - 10.1093/jss/fgu020
DA - 2014-07-02
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/dan-gibson-the-qur-anic-geography-a-survey-and-evaluation-of-the-s4wpDFR0Ym
SP - 465
EP - 467
VL - 59
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -