The T-Stems in Soqotri

A Contribution to Semitic Detransitivising Derivation
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70377-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 113, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

This book presents the results of a field research on the verbal system of Soqotri, a little-studied language spoken on the island of Soqotra (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 of detransitivisation. In this book you will find comprehensive descriptions of the synchronic morphology and semantics of the T-stems, as well as an inquiry into their diachronic background. Simultaneously, the study is a contribution to the general typology of detransitivising derivation in the languages of the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bulakh, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Tables

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 The Soqotri Language

1.2 The Verbal System of Soqotri

2 The Morphology of T-Stems

2.1 Strong Verbs of VIII and VI

2.2 Strong Verbs of VII

2.3 Phonologically Motivated Variations

2.4 Conjugational Subtypes Motivated by the Consonantal Set of the Root

2.5 Irregular Verbs

2.6 Biconsonantal Roots in the T-Stem

3 The Diachronic Dimension of the T-Stems

3.1 Strong Roots

3.2 The Diachronic Dimension of T-Stems of Geminated Verbs

3.3 The Diachronic Dimension of Hollow Verbs

3.4 The Diachronic Dimension of C1C2y verbs

3.5 The Diachronic Dimension of T-Stem Verbs with Root-Initial t and with Root-Initial “Weak” Consonant

3.6 Conclusions: The Reconstructed Bases for Strong and Weak T-Stem Verbs

4 The Semantics of the T-Stems

4.1 Semantics of VIII and VI

4.2 Equipollent Pairs with Stem II

4.3 Equipollent Pairs with Stem IV and Derivation from Stem IV

4.4 Semantic Opposition between VIII/VI and VII

4.5 Semantics of VI: The Evidence of the Corpus

4.6 Semantics of the T-Stems: The Diachronic Dimension

Appendix: The Lexical Data

1 Strong Verbs

2 The Type C1©C3 (Verbs with the Second “Idle Glottis” Consonant)

3 The Type ?C2C3/tC2C3 (Verbs with Root-Initial ? and Verbs with Root-Initial T)

4 The Type C1C2C2 (Geminated Roots)

5 The Type C1VC3 (Hollow Roots)

6 The Type C1C2y

7 The Type C1C2?

8 “Doubly Weak” Roots

9 Irregular Verbs

10 Biconsonantal Verbs

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Bulakh is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of HSE University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a fieldwork researcher on Soqotra since 2017 and a member of the Russian-Soqotri fieldwork team headed by Vitaly Naumkin. Her publications deal with Soqotri, Ethio-Semitic languages and Semitic in general. She is among the authors of the first two volumes of Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature (Brill, 2014, 2018)