Verbal Substantives in Proto-Semitic
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TL;DR: This post explores several Proto-Semitic verbal substantive patterns and argues that vowel quality was associated with distinct semantic tendencies (active, passive/resultative, stative/resultative). Tracing their reflexes across daughter languages, it situates these forms along a continuum of nominality, from participles and agent nouns to gerunds and infinitives.... Read More