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Soqotri
Ch. 12. P. 280-320.
The chapter presents a synchronic description of the language Soqotri, belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch of the Semitic languages and spoken on the island of Soqotra. The description includes the basic facts on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language and is accompanied with a short original text in Soqotri provided with a linguistic glossing.
Bulakh M., , in : Lexicalization patterns in color naming: A cross-linguistic perspective. : Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. Ch. 8. P. 159-189.
The article explores the origins of Semitic color terms for yellow, green, and blue. These fundamental color categories are missing from the reconstructed proto-Semitic basic color term system, but their designations were added into basic color term systems of many daughter languages. This chapter focuses on derivations from designations of “referent objects” (objects typically characterized ...
Added: October 27, 2019
Semitic inscriptions in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod: a reply to alternative interpretations
Gippius A., Gzella H., Mikheev S. M. et al., Russian linguistics 2020 Vol. 44 P. 1-12
In the present article, we offer a detailed reply to alternative interpretations of our explanation of two eleventh-century phrases inscribed many times on the walls of the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod: коуни рони and парехъ мари. According to our previous article in this journal, the phrases have a Semitic origin: Hebrew qūmī ronnī and Syriac /barren̲k mār/, respectively. In ...
Added: June 30, 2020
Bulakh M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2021 Vol. 66 No. 1 P. 263-292
The present study considers the function of the pattern of the so-called stem IV, primarily associated with causatives, in Soqotri (Modern South Arabian). It focuses on the correlation between the semantics of the source verb and that of the derived verb, examines the semantic classes which are compatible with the causative morpheme, and establishes several ...
Added: February 21, 2021
Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2018
This research examines the ergativity in Neo-Aramaic languages. It is based on the materials of the previous works and field studies. The results show that the system of Neo-Aramaic preterit constructions, that is usually being called «ergative», in sober fact is not ergative. In reality in Neo-Aramaic languages two different systems of the marking of ...
Added: December 13, 2018
Sarkisov I., В кн. : Acta linguistica Petropolitana. Труды Института лингвистических исследований РАН / Т. XIV. Ч. 2. Материалы Тринадцатой конференции по типологии и грамматике для молодых исследователей (2016 г.). : Институт лингвистических исследований РАН, 2018. С. 380-399.
This research examines the ergativity in Neo-Aramaic languages. It is based on the materials of the previous works and field studies. The results show that the system of Neo-Aramaic preterit constructions, that is usually being called «ergative», in sober fact is not ergative. In reality in Neo-Aramaic languages two different systems of the marking of ...
Added: December 13, 2018
Bulakh M., , in : The Semitic Languages. Second Edition. : L., NY : Routledge, 2019. Ch. 8. P. 174-201.
The chapter presents the language Tigrinya, spoken in Eritrea and in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The description presents the essential fact on the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language and is accompanied with a short example of a literary text on Tigrinya, provided with a linguistic glossing. ...
Added: March 21, 2019
L., NY : Routledge, 2019
The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.
This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following:
• new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic ...
Added: March 21, 2019
Naumkin V., Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2022 Vol. 172 No. 2 P. 1-23
With a certain delay due the – dramatically ongoing – political and social instability in Yemen, the present authors resume the publication of the results of their long-term lexicographic project dealing with previously unknown or unrecognized lexemes of the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen) ...
Added: December 2, 2021
Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 1 P. 337-351
Suffix conjugations (SCs) of East and West Semitic may not be traced back to the same verb form in Proto-Semitic. Rather, they evolved separately, by way of a ‘common drift’ in the two branches of Semitic. This is demonstrated, in particular, by a crass contrast, both in forms and diathetic meanings, between the SCs of ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Open Book Publishers, 2021
The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Lyavdansky A., , in : Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic. : Open Book Publishers, 2021. P. 415-442.
The aim of this paper is to present a basic word list for Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic provided with etymologies and a discussion of problematic positions in the list. This study, which uses a variant of Swadesh list of 110 basic words, is the first research outcome after creating an electronic corpus of literary Christian Urmi based on the texts published in Soviet Union in 1929 - 1938 ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Kogan L., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2019 Vol. 139 No. 4 P. 893-906
Thirty years after the appearance of Wolf Leslau’s Comparative Dictionary of
Geʿez, the present study aims at correcting and updating some of the entries of this
major tool of Semitic etymology. New data from Ugaritic, Akkadian, and especially
Modern South Arabian are prominent among the additions (particularly the
Soqotri lexical material acquired in the course of the many years ...
Added: February 20, 2020
Balakhvantsev A., Kogan L., Lyavdansky A. et al., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2022 Vol. 82 No. 4 P. 911-940
The authors publish a hitherto unknown squeeze made from a North West Semitic inscription. The squeeze originally belonged to the Russian Archeological Institute in Constantinople and is now hosted by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The inscription, performed in relief, may have been made on a large ...
Added: December 24, 2022
Bulakh M., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2020 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 677-720
The paper gives a survey of verbs of falling in Tigrinya (an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia). The employment of each verb related to the situation of falling down is illustrated with phrasal examples. The Tigrinya data is further compared with Geez, a closely related extinct language. A special subsection deals with ...
Added: December 25, 2020
Häberl C., Kuzin N., Loesov S. et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2020 Vol. 65 No. 2 P. 473-493
Versions of the folktale Zêrka Zêra (in Kurdish)/Stērka Zerá (in Ṭuroyo) circulate throughout southeastern Anatolia. The story belongs to a widely-disseminated tale type, the ‘Bear’s Wife’, which concerns a young woman who is abducted by a bear (or other wilderness creature) and is forced to spawn and rear his children before escaping or being rescued. ...
Added: September 4, 2020
Zeltin L. A., В кн. : Актуальные проблемы арабской филологии и методики преподавания арабского языка: Материалы IV Международной научно-практической конференции, г. Грозный, 11 - 12 ноября 2016 г. ЧГПУ. : АЛЕФ, 2016. С. 342-348.
The article discusses the formation, development and current status of the Maltese language and the factors which contributed to the development of one of the Arabic dialects in the official language of a European country. ...
Added: January 31, 2017
Kalinin M., Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 471-516
In Proto-Aramaic, the passive of transitive verbs belonging to all three principal stems—G, D and C—was formed internally. Some verbs of the G- and D-stems also possessed detransitive derivatives. Transitive verbs of the G-, D- and C-stems lost their internal passives early on, and the passives of G- and D-verbs were encoded by their respective ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Lyavdansky A., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2023 Т. 19 № 1 С. 193-229
On the basis of field and corpus data, preliminary observations are made about the form and function of serial verb constructions (SVC) in the varieties of Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic. Serial verb constructions are considered adopting
“wide” understanding of this phenomenon, represented by the works of Plungyan, Aikhenvald and Andrason among many others. Big amount of data ...
Added: August 7, 2023
Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2023
The present article is the result of the author’s long-time occupation with the etymology of the North Ethiopian/Eritrean language Tigre. The Wörterbuch der Tigré-Sprache (WTS) by Enno Littmann and Maria Höfner has been the only source of lexical information for this study, which seems justified in view of the outstanding merits of this unique ...
Added: November 9, 2023
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Added: October 23, 2017
Barsky E., Loesov S., , in : Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic. : Open Book Publishers, 2021. P. 1-28.
The ultimate source of inspiration for the present study is our ambition to offer a detailed description of the history of the Aramaic verbal system. A key event in this history is what Goldenberg used to call ‘the morphological revolution’, i.e. the shift, within Eastern Aramaic, from the Middle Aramaic2 verbal systems to those of Modern ...
Added: January 23, 2021