<HTML><BODY><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bert Kouwenberg in his huge book on the Akkadian verb (2010) notes that “</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Verbal plurality or event plurality refers to a quantification of the event or the process expressed by the verb, i.e., whether it refers to a single, a repeated, a protracted, or a more intensive occurrence.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Akkadian, “verbal plurality” is rendered by two derived stems of the verb, one of which does not seem to have any meaning other than plurality.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Do you know of any recent reference works on verbal plurality, or of interesting case-studies outside Semitic (and Afrasian in general)?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thank you very much,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: ANETimes; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Sergey </span></p><br></BODY></HTML>