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Despite numerous studies and treatments of Phoenician syntax, little has been done in relation to a text linguist approach. The present study analyses the Phoenician inscription of Azatiwada on a complete textual basis, and highlights syntactic constituents that help mark segmental beginnings and ends throughout the text. It will be shown that demonstrable patterns occur that signal demarcations in syntax. Literary devices relevant to this study are also examined, insomuch as they contribute in defining and confirming the syntactic analysis. These devices are viewed separately, yet cooperatively with the syntax, and afford a proper syntactic understanding from a different set of criteria. Two of these literary devices include anadiplosis and chiasmus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on the discovery of a Hieroglyphic Luwian-Phoenician bilingual inscription. Where the inscriptions were discovered; Advantages and disadvantages of using hieroglyhic portion of the inscription in studies; Rhetorical structure of the Phoenician text; Details on the Phoenician text.

This paper offers new interpretations of passages in KAI 1: 2 and KM 121 on the basis of contextual and etymological considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The inscription from Karatepe (KAI 26) is a bilingual artefact in Luwian and Phoenician. Since both texts are written in a fluent and idiomatic manner, they must be interpreted independently. A comparison between them can be undertaken only after an independent reading. This way of approaching the texts calls into question the volitive interpretation of the so-called blessing in III:2-III:11 in the Phoenician version on the basis of the volitive meaning of the parallel Luwian section. Indeed, the presence of a blessing is unlikely in a royal Phoenician inscription because of its literary genre. Moreover, it is improbable that wbrk in II:2 begins a blessing since all other Phoenician inscriptions use the yiqtol ybrk to introduce one. Lines III:2-11, rather than being a request for blessing, are a description of blessing and prosperity accorded to the city by Baal and the gods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A single Latin manuscript, Berne codex 123 (folio 7a), preserves a statement by Isidorus Hispalensis who tells of twelve parts of speech in Phoenician, consisting of the usual eight with the addition of the article, the ‘impersonal mode’ (having no set person or number), the infinitive and the ‘gerund’. This paper proposes identifying the gerund with the infinitive followed by a personal pronoun, a construction attested in Phoenician inscriptions from Byblos, Zincirli, Karatepe and Çineköy, and occurring sporadically in Ugaritic, Hebrew and South-Arabian. It is argued that it represents an earlier stage or a variant of the Ethio-Semitic ‘gerund’ denoting an action simultaneous or anterior to the one expressed by another verb in the perfect or the imperfect. Its absence in Aramaic, North-Arabian and Classical Arabic once again shows the weakness of the hypothesis of a ‘Central Semitic’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]