Virtual Length and the Two <i>I</i>’s of Qaraqosh Neo-AramaicJournal of Semitic StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EEVR58DF/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.NoamFaustNicolaLampitelliVirtual Length and the Two <i>I</i>’s of Qaraqosh Neo-Aramaichttp://syriaca.org/cbss/EEVR58DFhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/EEVR58DFhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/EEVR58DFJournal of Semitic Studies65:1202035-60This paper examines the differences in form between weak-final (III-j) verbs and strong verbs in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Qaraqosh (Khan 2002). The analysis, conducted in the autosegmental theory of Strict CV (Lowenstamm 1996, Scheer 2004), derives these differences from the interaction of the common template with the weak radical of weak verbs. In addition, it accounts for two surprising facts about this lan-guage: (i) the distribution of the vowel [I], which only contrasts with other relevant vowels in the final unstressed position; and (ii) the marking, unique among Semitic languages, of a gender distinction in the imperative only on weak verbs. The analysis suggests that both these facts follow from the assumption that [I] is a phonologically short /i/, while a phonologically long /i/ is realized with the quality [i]. It thus argues for non-surface-true ‘virtual’ length.
Faust, Noam, and Nicola Lampitelli. “Virtual Length and the Two I’s of Qaraqosh Neo-Aramaic.” Journal of Semitic Studies 65:1 (2020): 35–60. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgz036.
Noam Faust and Nicola Lampitelli, Virtual Length and the Two I’s of Qaraqosh Neo-Aramaic,” Journal of Semitic Studies 65:1 (2020): 35–60, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgz036.Modern SyriacQaraqoshSyriac languagegrammarphonologyverb