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The Definite Articles in the Semitic Languages: A Comparative Study [PDF]

, 2018
In languages, definite articles have great importance in revealing the essence of the speech and its connotations.  These definite articles contribute to the coherence of the linguistic text because they show the purpose behind the meanings and ...
Al-Khamayseh, Ali Za'al
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The Semitic root evolution (cultural and historical aspect)

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021
The paper considers the long-ago perceived, but inadequately studied phenomenon of the Semitic root triconsonantism. Some examples of the paradigm realization from the Biblical Hebrew, where the adducing of the third consonant to a 2C-root (biconsonantal)
A.E. Zeldin
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Reflections on Arabic and Semitic: Can proto-Semitic case be justified?

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016
From a comparative linguistic perspective the question whether or not proto-Semitic had a functioning case system similar to that in Classical Arabic does not readily yield an unequivocal answer. It is generally agreed that there are Semitic languages or
Jonathan Owens
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The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin

Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021
The Proto-Semitic genitive ending on triptotic nouns is commonly reconstructed as *-im (unbound state)/*-i (bound state). In Akkadian, however, this case ending is long -ī- before pronominal suffixes.
Benjamin Suchard
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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METHODS FOR SPEECH CONTACT ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF THE ‘UBIQUITY OF RHETORIC’. PROOFING THE CONCEPTUAL CONSISTENCY OF SPEECH AS LINGUISTIC MACRO-SETTING [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2012
In this article we will apply a method of proof for conceptual consistency in a long historical range taking the example of rhetoric and persuasion. We will analyze the evidentially present linguistic features of this concept within three linguistic ...
Dr. Fee-Alexandra HAASE
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Morphosyntactic aspects of agrammatism in Palestinian Arabic: Findings from a Semitic language

Revista de Investigación en Logopedia, 2023
The present study uses a spontaneous speech task to investigate the production of morphosyntactic elements in Palestinian Arabic agrammatism (PA). Eight Palestinian-Arabic-speaking individuals with agrammatism (6 males and 2 females), diagnosed with ...
Hisham Adam
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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The biradical origin of semitic roots [PDF]

, 2007
textMany scholars who have worked on reconstructing Proto-Semitic postulate that the original forms of the Semitic roots consisted of three radicals, with the occurrence of the infrequent biradical and quadriradical roots needing explanation ...
Hecker, Bernice Varjick, 1935-
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