• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: A neglected phonetic law: The assimilation of pretonic yod to a following coronal in North-West Semitic
  • Beteiligte: Garnier, Romain; Jacques, Guillaume
  • Erschienen: Cambridge University Press, 2012
  • Erschienen in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X11001261
  • ISSN: 0041-977X; 1474-0699
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  • Beschreibung: <p>This paper shows the existence of a pretonic assimilation of *y to a following coronal consonant (including *y from proto-Semitic *y and *w) in North-West Semitic languages. This rule, which has been obscured by analogy in each of the North-West Semitic languages, explains three independent sets of facts: the formation of irregular maqtal-s in Hebrew, Phoenician and Aramaic; the irregular conjugations of several verbs in Hebrew; and the plural formation of the irregular noun "house" in Hebrew and Aramaic. This proposal also solves the long-standing problem of the etymology of the verb "to give" in North-West Semitic languages (NTN in Hebrew vs. YTN in Phoenician).</p>