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'Parasite h' in Soqotri Revisited
Journal Asiatique. 2022. Vol. 310. No. 2. P. 189–210.
Since the earliest studies on the Soqotri language (Modern South Arabian branch, Semitic family), it has been observed that a non-etymological h (labeled 'parasite h') often appears before the last vowel of nominal bases in some slots of their paradigm. Until now, the 'parasite h' has been thought to be related to vowel length (etymological or secondary). In the present contribution, the precise conditions for the emergence of the 'parasite h' are established, understood as a combination of phonological and morphological factors (and blurred to a certain degree by the recent process of paradigmatic levelling). None of them supports the traditional hypothesis of the 'parasite h' reflecting vowel length. Rather, the origin of the 'parasite h' lies in breathy phonation characteristic of final syllables ending in sonorants at a certain period in the history of Soqotri.
Logvinova N., Russian linguistics 2026 Vol. 50 Article 11
This paper presents the first in-depth corpus-based study of a previously overlooked syntactic variation in Russian: the competition between juxtapositional (Nominative) and possessive-like (Genitive) encoding of the second noun (the term) in specificational constructions (e.g., ponjatie čest’ (notion.NOM honor.NOM) vs. ponjatie česti (notion.NOMhonor.GEN) ‘the notion of honor’). While typological research has established cross-linguistic preferences for one encoding strategy over another, intralinguistic variation ...
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Fedorov D., Jezikoslovni Zapiski 2026 № 32(1) С. 23–52
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Velichkov B., Nikolova-Koleva I., Slavcheva M., Shumen: INCOMA Ltd, 2025.
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Кульков А. Н., Tsvetkova M. V., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология 2026 № 100 С. 158–173
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Gridneva E., Vestnik Tomskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, Filologiya 2026 No. 100 P. 38–52
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Керимов Р. Э., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 148–162
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Максимов И. В., Новый филологический вестник 2025 Т. 73 № 2 С. 187–196
The majority of studies on the metrical aspects of Olga Sedakova’s poetry focus on the formal elements of versification, rarely exploring the substantive possibilities of the chosen metres. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the unified narrative of the four-foot amphibrach, tracing its development in Russian poetry from V.A. Zhukovsky to O.A. Sedakova. At ...
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Bulakh M., al-Daʕrhi A. ʕ., al-Daʕrhi ʕ. G. et al., Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 2025 Vol. 17 No. 2 P. 244–288
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Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 1-2 P. 51–93
The article continues the series of publications focused on the reassessment of the controversial Hokan hypothesis. In this paper, the traditional comparative method is applied to sound correspondences involving labial and coronal obstruents. The obtained results are compared to Terrence Kaufman’s (1989) reconstruction of Proto-Hokan. ...
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Savelyev A., Вопросы языкового родства 2025 № 23/1-2 С. 137–167
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Savelyev A., Российская тюркология 2024 № 40-41 С. 24–52
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Belozerova A., Kharitonova A., al-Da‘arhi A. ‘., Folklore 2025 Vol. 136 No. 1 P. 62–83
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Bulakh M., Leiden: Brill, 2024.
The book presents the results of a field research on the verbal system of Soqotri, a little-known language spoken on the island of Soqotra in the Arabian sea and belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch of Semitic. The investigation focuses on the so-called T-stems (marked by the infix -t-), mostly employed as derivational means ...
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Zhivlov M., В кн.: Славянское и балканское языкознание. Балто-славянская компаративистика. Акцентология. Дальнее родство языков. Выпуск 23.: М.: Институт славяноведения РАН, 2023. С. 66–78.
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Belozerova A., Kharitonova A., al-Da‘arhi A. ‘., Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2023 Vol. 86 No. 3 P. 561–580
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Bulakh M., Kogan L., Issa A. et al., Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 2021 Vol. 13 P. 239–287
Soqotri is an understudied Semitic language belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch and spoken by the approximately 100,000 inhabitants of the island of Soqotra. The present contribution offers a list of verbs belonging to the so-called causative stem in Soqotri (a cognate of the Arabic stem IV), based on the analysis of the data ...
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