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Morphophonemics of the Verb in Rendille; Gender and Plurality in Rendille
Av A Oomen
Häftad, 1981
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The morphology and morphophonemics of the verb in Rendille are treated; of simple stems consisting of a bare , and of derived stems consisting of a root plus an extension affix. Suffix extensions-which may be reflexive-middle causative, agentive-are dealt with in some detailbrief mention is made of …
Love through Death in Modern Hebrew
A Syntactic Treatment
Av Z Malisdorf
Häftad, 1979
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Investigating the verb la-mut 'to die' in Hebrew, one observes that, depending on the context, it has a secondary meaning ranging from 'want' to ' love'. It will be argued here that the different readings of the verb stem from a regularity in Hebrew according to which some verbs may change their …
Syntax of Indicator Particles in Somali
Relative Clause Construction
Häftad, 1980
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Paradigm Coherence
Evidence from Modern Hebrew; Oriental Israeli Hebrew: A Study in Phonetics
Av S. Bolozky
Häftad, 1980
241 kr
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Data from Modern Hebrew support the principle of paradigm coherence and the claim that inflection tends to minimize allomorphy while derivation preserves it. It is shown, however, that analogical change is a function of the degree of automaticity of the morphological and syntactic relationships …
Semantic Parameters in Angas Kinship Terminology
Häftad, 1978
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This paper has two purposes: first, to present the facts of the system of kinship terminology of Angas; and second, to propose a formalism for representing such facts within linguistic descriptions. The analysis presented is purely formal, with no discussion of the cultural or func tional …
Hausa Aspect System
Av P. Newman, R. G. Schuh
Häftad, 1974
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In the paper the authors hope to account for the aspect marking constructions of modern Hausa by providing detailed historical explanations of their origin and development, beginning with morphological forms and syntactic patterns reconstructed for Proto-Hausa. The description accounts for the …
Extrinsic Ordering in Classical Arabic
Av R. Hetzron
Häftad, 1974
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One speaks of extrinsic ordering when the order of application of two rules must be specifically indicated and does not follow from a general principle. In Arabic the survival of a long vowel in a syllable made closed by a contraction may be a case of such ordering, though it may also be …
Indicator Particles in Somali
Häftad, 1975
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In Somali there is a number of indicators (phrasal particles) which act as signals of completeness of the sentence and affect the case system and verbal concords. The structures in which they occur have various semantic functions such as the directing of emphasis, making statements and questions , …
Development of the Anomalous Syriac Verb eskah 'to find'
Av J. L. Malone
Häftad, 1974
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The canonically anomalous shape of Syriac verb ekah 'to find' is shown to result from a convergence of diachronic pressures on an intersection of phonological weak spots and morphosyntactic imbalance. The effect of the changes is a trade-off of morphosyntactic defectiveness for moderate …
Phonology of Akkadian Syllable Structure
Predicative State and Inflection of the Nominal Predicate in Akkadian and Syriac
Häftad, 1984
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The present study adopts a generative theoretical approach and analyzes a number of phonological and morphological rules in Akkadian, especially: a- EPENTHESIS, i - ADD , VOWEL DELE TION, VOWEL SHORTENING , VOWEL LENGTHENING , and FEM ININE SUFFIX SELECTION. Where necessary, the rules are …
Sequential Forms in Late Egyptian and Biblical Hebrew
A Parallel Development of Verbal Systems
Av A Loprieno
Häftad, 1980
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This paper presents the analysis of a common feature in Late Egyptian and Biblical Hebrew verbal systems, namely the existence of sequential forms, used to coordinate two sentences sharing the same time reference. This feature is analyzed both synchron ically and diachronically, whereby it appears …
Aphasic Evidence for Lexical and Phonological Representations
Av M. Barkai
Häftad, 1980
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Linguistic phenomena as manifested in the case of a Hebrew-speaking aphasic are discussed in this monograph. The patient's linguistic performance included: (1)writing down forms which deviated from the standard orthography, but which corresponded remarkably well with the types of underlying …
Central Somali
A Grammatical Outline
Av J I Saeed
Häftad, 1982
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There are three major dialect groups of Somali: Common (or Northern) Somali, Benaadir Somali, and Central Somali (Rahanwin, Af Maymay etc.). This article presents an outline of the Central Somali spoken in the Bay region of southern Somalia, including the city of Isha Baydhaba (Iscia Baidoa). …
Development of the Participle in Biblical, Mishnaic, and Modern Hebrew
Av A Gordon
Häftad, 1982
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Markedness Relations in the Pronunciation of the Prefixed Particles in Modern Hebrew; Analogy and Regularization in Morphophonemic Changes; The Case of Weak Verbs in Post-Biblical and Colloquial Modern Hebrew
Häftad, 1984
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Analysis of the pronunciation of the prefixed particles in Hebrew formal and semi-formal speech shows that deviations from the norms are of significance only in the minority of the forms, espe cially in the rare environments. The findings are explained by a markedness theory which incorporates …
Word Order in the Aramaic of Daniel
Av E. M. Cook
Häftad, 1987
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New statistics are presented here on the kinds of word order present in the Aramaic of the book of Daniel; an attempt is made to examine the roles of word order in the verbal clause.
Theoretical Implications of Consonant Sequence Constraints
Av Z. Bar-Lev
Häftad, 1978
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Seven constraints on consonant sequences in Israeli Hebrew, which are the modern reflexes of older Semitic constraints, are discussed in relation to three levels: (i ) as Morpheme Structure Conditions imposed on the underlying consonantal root morpheme; (ii) as Surface Phonetic Constraints imposed …
Sam Languages
Av B. Heine
Häftad, 1978
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The Sam languages are spoken in the Eastern African countries of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. They include Rendille, Boni and the various dialects of the Somali dialect cluster. The term "Sam" refers to a closely-knit unit of Cushitic languages within the Omo-Tana (formerly called " Somaloid" or …
Lexical Decomposition and Lexical Unity in Hebrew
Av R. A. Berman
Häftad, 1979
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The study examines the difference between lexicalized forms of certain predicate-types in Modern Hebrew as manifested through the binyan system of verb- morphology, on the one hand, and their more analytical or "decomposedcounterparts-with specific reference to expressions of Causation, as in …
Grammatical Categories of Verb Stems in Chadic
Av E Wolff
Häftad, 1979
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Current theories on the nature and history of the Chadic verbal system claim that Proto-Chadic had (aa fundamental binary distinction of aspect, in which (b) the Perfective was the unmarked category, and that (c) a characteristically marked Imperfective verb stem can be reconstructed for the proto- …
IIwy Verbs and the Vowel System of Proto-West Semitic
Häftad, 1979
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Dissatisfaction is expressed with the theories generally offered as explanation for the development of the IIwy verbs in West Semitic. As a result, recourse is made to an internal reconstruction of the relevant groun as it occurs in Classical Arabic, in terms of its lin guistic context in that …
Consonant Phonemes of Proto-East-Cushitic
Häftad, 1979
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This paper is a preliminary attempt to reconstruct the consonant system of Proto-East-Cushitic (PEC)one of the four branches of the Cushitic family. Data are taken from some twenty-odd languages including unpublished material on a variety of hitherto little known languages. After discussing a …
Phonological Channels in Chaha; The t-Converb in Western Gurage
Häftad, 1975
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In Chaha the impersonal and Sg. 3m. object suffixes labialize the nearest preceding plain noncoronal consonant. Furthermore a consonant will become identical to the next following consonant if it can do so by becoming labialized or palatalized. An attempt to formulate these rules in an economical …
Reference to Quantification in the City Dialect of Gaza; The Survival of Obsolete Hebrew Words in Idiomatic Expressions
Häftad, 1975
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This is a sociolinguistic analysis of some very common ways in the dialect to refer to concepts of time and space on one hand, and other types of quantification on the other. Those concepts of time and space do not depend so much upon any one system within the grammar, as they do upon the ways of …
Systematic vs Autonomous Phonemics and the Hebrew Grapheme dagesh
Av J. L. Malone
Häftad, 1975
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An early established tenet of generative phonologists was that the SYSTEMATIC PHONEME should replace the neo Bloomfieldian AUTONOMOUS PHONEME in phonological theory, this being a gratuitous hypostatization frequently making it impossible to state phonological patterning in fully general form. This …
On the Role of Perceptual Clues in Hebrew Relativization
Av T. Givon
Häftad, 1975
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Relativization in Modern Israeli Hebrew is discussed from a number of perspectives. First, it is shown that when the resumptive (anaphoric) pronoun in Hebrew relativization is attracted to the position adjacent to the head noun, the relative subordinator she may be deleted. In other words, the …
Chadic Verbal System and its Afroasiatic Nature
Av R. G. Schuh
Häftad, 1976
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Some scholars, especially Diakonoff, have delineated a number of general Afroasiatic structural features which are present in the Chadic family. Most such comparative work has relied heavily on Hausa, but Hausa viewed alone does not always give an accurate picture of deeper Chadic patternsUsing …
