An Unexpected Co-Occurrence Restriction on Syriac Root Consonants

An Unexpected Co-Occurrence Restriction on Syriac Root ConsonantsHugoye: Journal of Syriac 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/YS38YPMA/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.EmmanuelAïmAn Unexpected Co-Occurrence Restriction on Syriac Root Consonantshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/YS38YPMAhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/YS38YPMAhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/YS38YPMAHugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies22:1201939-61The aim of this paper is to highlight an unexpected, and so far, unidentified, root consonants incompatibility in Syriac. It is generally admitted that Semitic radical w and y can combine freely with any other radical consonant. This is indeed mostly the case in Syriac. However, as I shall demonstrate, final radical w is subject to a dissimilatory constraint: it cannot follow a homorganic medial root consonant, viz. labial p, b, m and velar k, g, q. Syriac semi-vowels phonology is blurred by several processes (both synchronic and diachronic) that neutralize the opposition between w and y in favor of y. In order to demonstrate the regularity of the incompatibility of final radical w with preceding homorganic medial radicals, exhaustive examination of the III-w roots is consequently carried out. Aïm, Emmanuel. “An Unexpected Co-Occurrence Restriction on Syriac Root Consonants.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 22:1 (2019): 39–61. Emmanuel Aïm, An Unexpected Co-Occurrence Restriction on Syriac Root Consonants, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 22:1 (2019): 39–61.Classical SyriacSyriac languagegrammarphonology