Maarten Kossmann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maarten Kossmann plays a role.
Articles
2010 Parallel System Borrowing: Parallel morphological systems due to the borrowing of paradigms Diachronica 27:3, pp. 459–488 | Article
In the typology of morphological borrowing, one type has received little attention: cases where words are borrowed in several paradigmatic forms. An example of this is found in English alumnus – alumni, where Latin nouns are borrowed both in their singular and plural forms. Such borrowings lead to… read more
2009 The Berber and the Berbers: Genetic and linguistic diversities Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures, d'Errico, Francesco and Jean-Marie Hombert (eds.), pp. 123–146 | Article
In Northern Africa, two main blocks of languages are spoken: the vernacular Arabic varieties and the Berber languages. Our objective is to correlate linguistic characters to genetic data. The precise language affiliation of the samples is controlled. Relationships with Arabic speakers are examined.… read more
2001 On the Etymology of "Silver" NOWELE Volume 38 (March 2001), pp. 3–15 | Article