Wave Theory, Rule Ordering, and Hebrew-Aramaic Segolation

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ID3962197
AuthorsJoseph L Malone (0000-0002-5515-6171, corresponding author)
Year1971
Volume91
Issue1
Pages44
Publication date1971-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/600443
OpenAlexW2321864535
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This paper studies the structure of the so-called segolate stems (PS *qVtl) in selected NW Semitic languages, notably Hebrew and Aramic, with an eye to discovering the divergent developmental conditions which lead to the reflexes qTtVl (Hebrew type) and qatll (Aramaic type). A unitary hypothesis is offered, the gist of which is that these differences in stem shape may be explained in terms of differences in sequencing involving the same or similar linguistic changes from the ancestral language to the individual daughter languages examined. Two alternative models are proposed for accommodating the hypothesis: diachronic wave theory (??3-5) and synchronic rule-reordering (?6)

Arabic · Biology · Hebrew · Linguistics · Political science · Semitic languages · Type (biology) · Unitary state · History · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Paleontology · Philosophy

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