L'origine de l'aoriste intensif en berbère

Kossmann, Maarten

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“…This particle is probably an innovation that does not greatly predate the proto-Berber stage (see below), and in fact there are a couple of vestiges of the usage of the y-əFăRRăS form for marking the future. This is found in all contexts in Zenaga in addition to an auxiliary construction (Taine-Cheikh 2009) and in certain types of subordinated clauses in Middle Atlas varieties (Kossmann 2002: 366).…”

Section: Yv-parras/y-əfărrăsmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…There is little doubt that this prefix is related to, and stems from, a derived form. This is corroborated by the fact that tt-is incompatible with the causative derivation, and thus seems to have played a role in derivation (Kossmann 2002). It thus makes sense, in principle, to consider the other means of forming an Imperfective as stemming from a derivation too.…”

Section: Yv-parras/y-əfărrăsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…In the first place, if the putative ancient geminate derivation was anything like its Semitic counterpart, the D-stem, it would have had a strong relationship to transitive expressions (Kouwenberg 1997). The origin of the tt - prefix, on the other hand, obviously lies in a valency-decreasing derivation, which is still attested in this form in a number of Berber varieties (Kossmann 2002). Thus the two derivations underlying the Berber Imperfective would have had opposite values.…”

Section: Yv-parras/y-əfărrăsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Yv-parras/y-əfărrăsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Yv-parras/y-əfărrăsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Yv-parras/y-əfărrăsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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“…It is geminated when attached to a stem beginning with a CC cluster. The examples in 10 Dell & Elmedlaoui 1985;2002;Ridouane 2008). This feature will be shown to be of paramount importance in determining the status of the initial site, and therefore the size of the causative and reciprocal prefixes in verbs with no peripheral vowels.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Indeed, both markers share almost the same phonological exponent (e.g. Tashlhiyt Kossmann (2002), /tt-/ diachronically evolved…”

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The left edge of the word in the Berber derivational morphology

Lahrouchi

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In many Berber varieties, causative and reciprocal verbs are built by means of monoconsonantal prefixes attached to a stem. These prefixes are realized as single or geminated depending on the properties of the stem. In this paper, it is argued that an initial templatic site is responsible for the length variation of the prefixes. Under specific licensing conditions, the initial site hosts the causative and the reciprocal prefixes by means of two distinct operations, namely movement and spreading. Moreover, complex combinations of those prefixes (causative + reciprocal, reciprocal + causative) feed apparently unrelated phenomena of selective harmony and dissimilation. They are argued to follow directly from the use of the initial site as part of the verb domain. Handled in syntactic structure, the initial site further allows accounting for the cooccurrence restrictions that the causative and the imperfective markers undergo: it is proposed that the causative takes precedence over the imperfective because it is generated lower in the structure under the vP. The same reasoning holds for the incompatibility of imperfective gemination with the reciprocal marker. It is precisely this type of restrictions that strictly phonological analyses fail to address.

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Ould-Braham¹

2002

Études Et Documents Berbères

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L'origine de l'aoriste intensif en berbère

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

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

The left edge of the word in the Berber derivational morphology

Publications récentes (Années 2001 et 2002)

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