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Title A partial reconstruction of Berber (Amazigh) deictics
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3719651
Date 2024
Author(s) Kossmann, M.G.
Abstract This article studies a number of questions in the reconstruction of the Berber deictic system. Based on a comparative analysis informed by historical phonology, it is shown (1) that the variation of the form of the singular proximal deictics can be understood from a basic form<em>a</em>, which could be expanded by a complementary element<em>d</em>, and, possibly, also by an element<em>Ɂ</em>; (2) that the proximal system of deictics originally had a number difference, even among adnominal deictics; (3) that the Ghadames (Libya) Anaphoric seriessg<em>-e</em>,pl<em>-id</em>has clear parallels in other varieties, especially in Kabyle (Algeria), and that, as a consequence, it can be reconstructed for proto-Berber. - Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics
Subject(s) Afroasiatic; Berber linguistics; Deixis; Historical linguistics; Kabyle
Language en
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Linguistique et Langues Africaines
Identifier doi:10.4000/lla.12968; lucris-id:1302536315
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2024-03-13;09:52:05