Contact and Afroasiatic Languages

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt; Shay, Erin

doi:10.1002/9781119485094.ch29

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“…Greenberg describes five different ways that a marks a plural form in the various languages, labelling the * CVCC- : * CVCaC- correspondence as “intercalation” of a . Although Greenberg's reasoning has been regarded as “a strong morphological argument in favour of a genetic relationship among Afroasiatic languages” (Frajzyngier and Shay 2012: 10), a -intercalation is only attested in Chadic and Semitic, and its regularity in the Northwest Semitic languages and Classical Arabic (for CVCC-at- nouns) is unparalleled in Chadic. Moreover, this account assumes that * CVCaC-ū- plurals are in fact ancient broken plurals with an added plural suffix, which we have questioned above.…”

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(Northwest) Semitic sg. **CVCC*-, pl. **CVCaC-ū-*: Broken plural or regular reflex?

Suchard

Groen

2021

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This paper provides a new explanation for the insertion of *a in plural forms of *CVCC- nouns also formed with an external plural suffix, e.g. *ʕabd- : *ʕabad-ū- ‘servant(s)’, in various Semitic languages. This *CVCaC-ū- pattern is usually considered to be a remnant of the Proto-Semitic broken plural system in Northwest Semitic, but we show that it goes back to Proto-Semitic in this form. Internal evidence from Semitic as well as comparative evidence from Afroasiatic points towards a pre-Proto-Semitic plural suffix *-w- underlying the external plural suffixes. This suffix created a consonant cluster in the plural of *CVCC- nouns, triggering epenthesis of *a. As the prime example of broken plural formation in Northwest Semitic thus seems to be purely suffixal in origin, we conclude by briefly considering the implications for the history of nominal pluralization in Semitic.

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Section: How Old Are *Cvcac-ū- Plurals?mentioning

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(Northwest) Semitic sg. **CVCC*-, pl. **CVCaC-ū-*: Broken plural or regular reflex?

Suchard

Groen

2021

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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“…Arabic is a Semitic language that falls under the Afro Asia language family (Frajzyngier & Shay, 2012). It is a language spoken by Arabs living in 22 Arab countries located in the Arabian Peninsula, northern Africa and the Mediterranean coast.…”

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Non-native Arabic Students' Perception on Virtual Communication Program with Native Speakers

Mohamad¹,

Puasa²,

Maromar³

et al. 2022

IJARBSS

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Speaking skills are one of the most challenging skills to be mastered by students of Arabic as a foreign language. Various activities were carried out by the parties involved to improve the proficiency of speaking skills among Arabic language students. At Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), an initiative was carried out to give students the opportunity to communicate with Arabic speakers from an institution of higher learning in Morocco (Muassasah Dar el Hadith). Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the perceptions of Arabic language students at UiTM on the implementation of the program. This study is a descriptive study that uses a quantitative approach through a survey questionnaire. The study sample comprises 37 students from UiTM's Professional Communication in Arabic language program. All students who participated in this program interacted orally with native speakers through the Google Meet platform. The results of the study found that students have diverse and mixed perceptions in terms of acceptance, attitude and motivation towards the program. Overall, it can be concluded that most students showed a positive perception and very good acceptance of the program. Only a small number of students had negative perceptions and stated that the program was quite burdensome and had disrupted their learning process.

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“…Semitic and Berber are both branches of the greater Afroasiatic language phylum (see Frajzyngier and Shay 2012 for a recent overview). Even though their relationship is quite distant, with a time depth of at least 6,500 years between living members of the family (Kossmann 2013: 14), there are major points of similarity, especially in the structure of the verbal root and in the ablaut patterns that are used to denote aspect and diathesis.…”

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A reconstruction of the system of verb aspects in proto-Berbero-Semitic

Kossmann

Suchard

2018

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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Several verbal forms reconstructed for proto-Semitic strongly resemble reconstructed forms in proto-Berber: compare Semitic yV-PaRRaS to Berber y-əFăRRăS, Semitic yV-PRaS to Berber y-əFRăS, and Semitic yV-PRuS and yV-PRiS to Berber y-ăFRəS. We suggest that these forms are historically related and sketch a line of development from the reconstructed meanings to their attested uses. yVPaRRaS, originally imperfective, retains that value in both Berber and Semitic. yVPRas, originally stative, gained a perfective meaning in Berber and Semitic; the stative meaning is retained in Berber, but was largely lost in Semitic. yVPRus/yVPRiS, originally perfective, retained that meaning in Semitic, merging with the newly perfective yVPRas forms; in Berber, yVPRaS completely replaced perfective yVPRuS/yVPRiS, relegating the latter to non-aspectual uses. We conclude by considering the quality of the first vowel; the alternation seen in Berber y-əFRăS and y-ăFRəS supports reconstructions as yiPRaS and yaPRuS/yaPRiS, conforming to the Barth–Ginsberg Law of Semitic.

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Contact and Afroasiatic Languages

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(Northwest) Semitic sg. **CVCC*-, pl. **CVCaC-ū-*: Broken plural or regular reflex?

(Northwest) Semitic sg. **CVCC*-, pl. **CVCaC-ū-*: Broken plural or regular reflex?

Non-native Arabic Students' Perception on Virtual Communication Program with Native Speakers

A reconstruction of the system of verb aspects in proto-Berbero-Semitic

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(Northwest) Semitic sg. *CVCC-, pl. *CVCaC-ū-: Broken plural or regular reflex?

(Northwest) Semitic sg. *CVCC-, pl. *CVCaC-ū-: Broken plural or regular reflex?

Non-native Arabic Students' Perception on Virtual Communication Program with Native Speakers

A reconstruction of the system of verb aspects in proto-Berbero-Semitic

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(Northwest) Semitic sg. **CVCC*-, pl. **CVCaC-ū-*: Broken plural or regular reflex?

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