This slightly revised edition of a doctoral dissertation is an
exhaustive analysis, morphological as well as syntactical, of the moods
in the Ugaritic verb system. The introduction describes the present
state of the research, presents a short survey of the moods in the other
Semitic languages and concludes with a paragraph on the method adopted
in this monography. A rather short chapter deals with the morphology and
offers as a conclusion quite practical paradigms. The author always
presents a morphology that is orthographically and phonetically
coherent. This way, he succeeds in demonstrating that in Ugaritic there
is no lax use of moods (Gordon).