The Broken Plural Problem In Arabic And Comparative Semitic

Author : Robert R. Ratcliffe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236739

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The "broken" Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic by Robert R. Ratcliffe Pdf

The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic historical linguistics: the highly allomorphic system of 'stem-internal' or 'broken' plurals. It shows that widely-accepted views regarding the historical development of this system are untenable and offers a new hypothesis. The first chapter lays out a methodology for comparative-historical research in morphology. The next two chapters present an analysis of Arabic morphology based on contemporary formal linguistic approaches, and applies this analysis to the noun plural system. Chapter Four shows that neither semantic shift nor ablaut-type sound change account adequately for the data. The fifth chapter offers a systematic comparison of the plural systems of Semitic languages, incorporating much new research on the languages of South Arabia and Ethiopia. Chapter Six proposes a new reconstruction.

Author : Mushira Eid,Robert R. Ratcliffe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275912

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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics by Mushira Eid,Robert R. Ratcliffe Pdf

The papers in this volume are a selection of papers presented at the 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (Salt Lake City, 1-3 March 1996). The contributions are: Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic: Jamal Ouhalla; Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic: Dina Belyayeva; Case Properties of Nominalization Dps in Classical Arabic: Arthur Stepanov; Underspecification of Lexical Entries for Arabic Verbs: Mark S. LeTourneau; Plural Formation in Arabic: Ali Idrissi; Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic: Robert R. Ratcliffe; The Suppletive Imperative of Arabic ‘Come’: David Testen; On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects: Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh; Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony: Kimary N. Shahin; Phonological Variation in Syrian Arabic: Correlation with Gender, Age, and Education: Jamil Daher; Arabic speakers and Parasitic Gaps: Naomi Bolotin; Stress Prosody and Speech Segmentation: Evidence from Moroccan Arabic: Younes Mourchid.

Author : Mushira Eid,Robert R. Ratcliffe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236586

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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics X by Mushira Eid,Robert R. Ratcliffe Pdf

The papers in this volume are a selection of papers presented at the 10th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (Salt Lake City, 1-3 March 1996). The contributions are: Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic: Jamal Ouhalla; Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic: Dina Belyayeva; Case Properties of Nominalization Dps in Classical Arabic: Arthur Stepanov; Underspecification of Lexical Entries for Arabic Verbs: Mark S. LeTourneau; Plural Formation in Arabic: Ali Idrissi; Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic: Robert R. Ratcliffe; The Suppletive Imperative of Arabic 'Come': David Testen; On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects: Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh; Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony: Kimary N. Shahin; Phonological Variation in Syrian Arabic: Correlation with Gender, Age, and Education: Jamil Daher; Arabic speakers and Parasitic Gaps: Naomi Bolotin; Stress Prosody and Speech Segmentation: Evidence from Moroccan Arabic: Younes Mourchid.

Author : Dilworth B. Parkinson,Elabbas Benmamoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275400

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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics by Dilworth B. Parkinson,Elabbas Benmamoun Pdf

The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000). The selection is noteworthy for its diversity of approach, and for a noticeable broadening of the kinds of questions that are being asked and the kind of data being gathered about Arabic in various settings. These papers cover many aspects of Arabic linguistic research, from models of language acquistion, to the borrowing of discourse patterns, and the use of 'secret' languages.

Author : Dilworth B. Parkinson,Elabbas Benmamoun
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247384

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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIII-XIV by Dilworth B. Parkinson,Elabbas Benmamoun Pdf

The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000). The selection is noteworthy for its diversity of approach, and for a noticeable broadening of the kinds of questions that are being asked and the kind of data being gathered about Arabic in various settings. These papers cover many aspects of Arabic linguistic research, from models of language acquistion, to the borrowing of discourse patterns, and the use of 'secret' languages.

Author : Joseph Shimron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722496X

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Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-based, Morphology by Joseph Shimron Pdf

This book puts together contributions of linguists and psycholinguists whose main interest here is the representation of Semitic words in the mental lexicon of Semitic language speakers. The central topic of the book confronts two views about the morphology of Semitic words. The point of the argument is: Should we see Semitic words' morphology as “root-based” or “word-based?” The proponents of the root-based approach, present empirical evidence demonstrating that Semitic language speakers are sensitive to the root and the template as the two basic elements (bound morphemes) of Semitic words. Those supporting the word-based approach, present arguments to the effect that Semitic word formation is not based on the merging of roots and templates, but that Semitic words are comprised of word stems and affixes like we find in Indo-European languages. The variety of evidence and arguments for each claim should force the interested readers to reconsider their views on Semitic morphology.

Author : Peter John Glanville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192511300

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The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb by Peter John Glanville Pdf

This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form. Beginning with the ground form, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the most common verb patterns of Arabic from a lexical semantic perspective. Peter Glanville explains why verbs with seemingly unrelated meanings share the same phonological shape, and analyses sets of words that contain the same consonantal root to arrive at a common abstraction. He uses both contemporary and historical data to explore the semantics of reflexivity, symmetry, causation, and repetition, and argues that the verb patterns of Arabic that express these phenomena have come about as the result of grammaticalization and analogical processes that are common cross-linguistically. The book adopts an approach to morphology in which rule-based derivation has created word patterns and consonantal roots, with the result that in some derivations roots may be extracted from a source word and plugged in to a pattern. It illustrates the semantic relationship between a source word and its derivative, while also offering evidence to support the view of the consonantal root as a morphological object. The volume will be a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Arabic language and linguistics who are interested in understanding the verb patterns of Arabic, the derivational relationships between words, and the construction of meaning in the mind. It will also appeal to researchers and students in morphology, semantics, historical linguistics, and cognitive linguistics.

Author : Elabbas Benmamoun,Reem Bassiouney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 999 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351377799

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The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics by Elabbas Benmamoun,Reem Bassiouney Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics introduces readers to the major facets of research on Arabic and of the linguistic situation in the Arabic-speaking world. The edited collection includes chapters from prominent experts on various fields of Arabic linguistics. The contributors provide overviews of the state of the art in their field and specifically focus on ideas and issues. Not simply an overview of the field, this handbook explores subjects in great depth and from multiple perspectives. In addition to the traditional areas of Arabic linguistics, the handbook covers computational approaches to Arabic, Arabic in the diaspora, neurolinguistic approaches to Arabic, and Arabic as a global language. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics is a much-needed resource for researchers on Arabic and comparative linguistics, syntax, morphology, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, and also for undergraduate and graduate students studying Arabic or linguistics.

Author : Abdelhadi Soudi,Antal van den Bosch,Günter Neumann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402060465

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Arabic Computational Morphology by Abdelhadi Soudi,Antal van den Bosch,Günter Neumann Pdf

This is the first comprehensive overview of computational approaches to Arabic morphology. The subtitle aims to reflect that widely different computational approaches to the Arabic morphological system have been proposed. The book provides a showcase of the most advanced language technologies applied to one of the most vexing problems in linguistics. It covers knowledge-based and empirical-based approaches.

Author : John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429655388

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The Semitic Languages by John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El Pdf

The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following: • new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology • an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic • text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation • new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference. This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development.

Author : Lutz Edzard
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3447052686

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Current issues in the analysis of Semitic grammar and lexicon by Lutz Edzard Pdf

Author : N. J. C. Kouwenberg
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066240

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The Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background by N. J. C. Kouwenberg Pdf

In this magnum opus, N. J. C. Kouwenberg presents a thoroughgoing, modern analysis of the Akkadian verbal system, taking into account all of the currently available evidence for the language during the course of the long period of its attestation. The book achieves this goal through two strategies: (1) to describe the Akkadian verbal system, as comprehensively as the data permit; and (2) to reconstruct its prehistory on the basis of internal evidence and reconstruction, comparison with cognate languages, and typological evidence. Akkadian has one of the longest documented histories of any language: data from nearly two-and-one-half millennia are available, even if the stream of data is sometimes interrupted and not always as copious as we would like. During the course of this history, numerous developments took place, illustrating how languages change over time and offering parallels for reconstruction of changes that occurred in poorly documented periods. As a result, this book will be of great interest, in the first place, for all students of Akkadian, both the language and the literature that is documented in that language; and in the second place, for all students of language and linguistics who are interested in the study of how languages are shaped, develop, and change during the course of a long history.

Author : M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro,Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Afroasiatic languages
ISBN : 9781646022311

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Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic by M. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro,Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli Pdf

Author : Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Körtvélyessy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869294

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Word-Formation across Languages by Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Körtvélyessy Pdf

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and only a few articles dealing with various word-formation issues of this kind appear in journals. The chapters in this volume address this issue by discussing, on contrastive principles, important questions of word-formation in a sample of 26 languages. The focus of the book, as a whole, is on typological features of word-formation in the languages sampled. It is aimed at researchers that have an interest in word-formation in a variety of languages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 26924 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080547848

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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field