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A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya) Based on Paradisi’s Work - Phoenix's blog
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Laquo; Broken Broken Almonds in Tashelhiyt. Central Chadic - Berber parallels ». A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya) Based on Paradisi’s Work. When I got my PhD in Octobre, I was planning for a publication of my book to come out fairly soon after. By most academic standards, July is pretty soon after, but it took longer than expected! The book has been published as the 41. Berber Studies volume and simultaneously as the 32. Posted at 09:59 AM. 07/25/2014 at 10:44 PM. No it would not do me any harm at all!
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Verbal Nouns in Proto-Berber #1: Weirdness in Awjila and Ghadames. - Phoenix's blog
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Laquo; The problem with *hCC verbs. Verbal Nouns in Proto-Berber #2: Awareness of root-types. ». Verbal Nouns in Proto-Berber #1: Weirdness in Awjila and Ghadames. Like Arabic, Berber has verbal nouns or maṣdars, nouns that express the action in a nominal way. In Arabic, the verbal noun form, especially of the basic verb stem is very difficult to predict, and in dictionaries youll often find 3 or 4 different formations which may be possible. Irregular verbal nouns exists, and they looks like more common ...
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Some thoughts on Proto-Berber short vowels: Nouns - Phoenix's blog
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Laquo; Archaic decades. Some thoughts on Proto-Berber short vowels: Verbs ». Some thoughts on Proto-Berber short vowels: Nouns. Ive been on a bit of a Proto-Berber reconstruction binge lately. Ive tried multiple times to get funding to write a long overdue a Berber Etymological dictionary. Ive never received funding though, but as a on-the-side thing, Ive been piecing together some basic stuff, and Ive been thinking about how to present the data of Proto-Berber. Ă, *ĭ, *ŭ. . 1999), Kossmann argues, mainl...
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'to write' and 'to open' and why reconstruction matters - Phoenix's blog
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Laquo; Verbal Nouns in Proto-Berber #3: The Glottal stop intial roots. Plural formations of Proto-Berber ». To write' and 'to open' and why reconstruction matters. Ive lately been researching the origin of the Libyco-Berber script, and I ran into this article by Salem Chaker and Slima Hachi: http:/ www.centrederechercheberbere.fr/tl files/doc-pdf/chak-hach.pdf. To write and Tuared. To open, but even at the time of writing (2000) this is evidently wrong. The verb to write can be reconstructed as. Even if...
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Intrusive-r in Pink - Phoenix's blog
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Laquo; Plural formations of Proto-Berber. Broken Broken Almonds in Tashelhiyt ». Dutch as a language as a lot of vowels. Often the vowels are described in terms of short-long pairs, but technically, it is more correct to speak of lax-tense pairs. The tense vowels occasionally do have a slightly longer pronunciation it is hardly significant. The pairs are:. Ɛ/ - /e/ (/e/ in Hollandic Dutch generally diphtongized to [eɪ]). Ɔ/ - /o/ (/o/ in Hollandic Dutch is generally diphtongized to [oʊ]). It has to do w...
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Sîdi Ḥámed ĕz-Zarrûq - Phoenix's blog
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Laquo; 999 Pounds. Abu-Dabar and the Ogre Part I ». So, I spent the better part of my day breaking my head over the before last text that is available for Aujila. Ive had serious trouble translating some parts of this text, and the text type is quite radically different from most of the stories weve heard so far. This seems to be a religious legend aboud Sîdi Ḥámed ĕz-Zarrûq whom I assume is the same as Ahmad Zarruq. Gan iwínan n-amedən ašál n-awílən. There was a Aujilan man. There is, was. Ḥ u šummán ks...
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Verbal Nouns in Proto-Berber #3: The Glottal stop intial roots - Phoenix's blog
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Laquo; Verbal Nouns in Proto-Berber #2: Awareness of root-types. To write' and 'to open' and why reconstruction matters ». Verbal Nouns in Proto-Berber #3: The Glottal stop intial roots. In my previous post about the Verbal Nouns, I pointed out that, if the Apophonic Class I verbs are really all of the same triradical structure in Proto-Berber, one would expect the verbal nouns to have similar formations, at least in some of the cases. To be ill VN. How can a triradical verb behave like a biradical verb?
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Aujila Texts - Phoenix's blog
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Below we find a collection of all the collected Aujila texts in existence, transcribed and glossed by myself. These texts are taken from Paradisi (1960). And are numbered according to his publication. I would like to thank Lameen Souag, Adam Benkato and Slavomír Čéplö for all the comments and making my translation and glossing much better than it would have been without them. Stick together and God will help you! Waiting for the Police. Buying your own donkey, and losing your Bracelet. Come up with me.
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Thamudic triptotes and the issue of discontinuity. In my blogpost Is Thamud a triptote? I suggested that the name of the people. Was a triptote in the language of the QCT, rather than a diptote as it is in Classical Arabic. A triptotic inflection of this noun would be Nom. Ṯmwdʔ . The diptotic inflection would be Nom. Ṯmwd ; Gen. Ṯmwd ; Acc. Ṯmwd Essentially the two forms can therefore only be consistently distinguished by the accusative orthographically. The word. Please read the linked blogpost. Is pl...