The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology
Robert R. Ratcliffe
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 168] 1998. xii, 261 pp.
Robert R. Ratcliffe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert R. Ratcliffe plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Historical linguistics | Morphology
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume X: Salt Lake City, 1996
Edited by Mushira Eid and Robert R. Ratcliffe
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 153] 1997. vii, 296 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
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2012. On calculating the reliability of the comparative method at long and medium distances: Afroasiatic comparative lexica as a test case. Journal of Historical Linguistics 2:2, pp. 239–281
The high degree of contradiction and incompatibility between two independently produced Afroasiatic comparative lexica (Ehret 1995, Orel & Stolbova 1995) calls into question the reliability of the comparative method at deep time depths. The discrepancy could only have arisen if one or both sources… read more | Article
2011. A preliminary analysis of Arabic derived verbs in the Leeds Quran Corpus – With special reference to Stem III (CaaCaC). Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Makoto Minegishi and Wolfgang Viereck (eds.), pp. 189–201
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2005. Semi-Productivity and Valence Marking in Arabic: The So-Called “verbal themes”. Corpus-Based Approaches to Sentence Structures, Takagaki, Toshihiro, Susumu Zaima, Yoichiro Tsuruga, Francisco Moreno-Fernández and Yuji Kawaguchi (eds.), pp. 179–190
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2003. The historical dynamics of the Arabic plural system: Implications for the theory of morphology. Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 339–362
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2002. The Broken Plural System of Moroccan Arabic: Diachronic and cognitive perspectives. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Parkinson, Dilworth B. and Elabbas Benmamoun (eds.), pp. 87–109
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2001. What do “phonemic” writing systems represent? Arabic Huruuf, Japanese Kana, and the Moraic Principle. Written Language & Literacy 4:1, pp. 1–14
The traditional classification of phonemic writing systems into three types — syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and alphabets — is based on a phonological theory which recognizes only the syllable and the segment as potential units of representation. It is argued here that an accurate typology of… read more | Article
1997. Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and Robert R. Ratcliffe (eds.), pp. 147 ff.
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1990. Arabic Broken Plurals: Arguments for a two-fold classification of morphology. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and John McCarthy (eds.), pp. 94 ff.
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