Article
French
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Abstract
The present article proposes a reassessment of the “casus pendens” categorisation based on Arabic grammatical theory and its focus on sentence structure. Structures traditionally described as ‘casus pendens’ sentences, abbreviated here as nom + nom-suff + x sentences, are reviewed by using Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses as a case study. This discussion proposes to reinterpret “casus pendens” sentences as mubtadaʾ + xabar structures in which the first nominative is intra-sentential. This inquiry seeks to show that sentences affected by preposing and extraposition are a separate phenomenon to nom + nom-suff + x sentences, and seeks to raise the possibility of analysing the nom + nom-suff unit of this sentence structure as a distinct possessive construction.