The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology
The “Broken” Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology
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阿拉伯语和比较闪语中的“破碎”复数问题：非连接形态中的同质异形和类比
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10.2307/417465
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1998
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Robert Ratcliffe
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作者：
Robert Ratcliffe
近年来，非连接形态的形式方面受到了相当大的关注，但此类系统的历时维度却很少被探索。目前的工作适用于一个经典的问题，在阿拉伯语和闪米特语历史语言学的现代方法和理论框架：“干内部”或“破碎”复数的高度同构系统。它表明，关于这一制度的历史发展的广泛接受的观点是站不住脚的，并提供了一个新的假设。第一章阐述了比较历史研究的方法论。接下来的两章介绍了基于当代形式语言学方法的阿拉伯语词法分析，并将此分析应用于名词复数系统。第四章指出语义转换和元音变化都不能充分解释语料。第五章系统地比较了闪米特语言的复数系统，并结合了对南阿拉伯和埃塞俄比亚语言的许多新研究。第六章提出了新的重构。
The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored. The current work applies a modern methodological and theoretical framework to a classic problem in Arabic and Semitic historical linguistics: the highly allomorphic system of ‘stem-internal’ or ‘broken’ plurals. It shows that widely-accepted views regarding the historical development of this system are untenable and offers a new hypothesis. The first chapter lays out a methodology for comparative-historical research in morphology. The next two chapters present an analysis of Arabic morphology based on contemporary formal linguistic approaches, and applies this analysis to the noun plural system. Chapter Four shows that neither semantic shift nor ablaut-type sound change account adequately for the data. The fifth chapter offers a systematic comparison of the plural systems of Semitic languages, incorporating much new research on the languages of South Arabia and Ethiopia. Chapter Six proposes a new reconstruction.