Article published in:
The Form of Structure, the Structure of Form: Essays in honor of Jean LowenstammEdited by Sabrina Bendjaballah, Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi and Nicola Lampitelli
[Language Faculty and Beyond 12] 2014
► pp. 163–176
Regularities in irregular Chaha verbs
This paper demonstrates that the most irregular verb stems of Chaha display striking communalities, and argues that this lends support to a root-and-template based analysis of Semitic word formation. It derives the irregularities by pairing the root with the Perfective, Imperfective or Imperative patterns which, according to Prunet & Banksira (1996), can be either long or short, and their interactions with subject suffixes. It proposes a unique UR for each aspect and accounts for the alternations using four morphophonological rules dubbed A-Raising, Final y-Labialization, Final y‑Deletion, and Quadrisyllabic Shortening.
Published online: 17 December 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.12.13ban
https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.12.13ban
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To appear. “Chaha Labialization and Palatalization as Coalescence.” Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics (BAALL).
Hetzron, Robert, and Habte Mariam Marcos
Lowenstamm, Jean
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Prunet, Jean-François, and Degif P. Banksira