The Negative Preterite in Kabyle Berber
Document type :
Article dans une revue scientifique
Title :
The Negative Preterite in Kabyle Berber
Author(s) :
Journal title :
Folia Linguistica
Pages :
185-223
Publisher :
De Gruyter
Publication date :
2001
ISSN :
0165-4004
Keyword(s) :
berbère
kabyle
apophonie
système verbal
prétérit négatif
kabyle
apophonie
système verbal
prétérit négatif
English keyword(s) :
Berber
Taqbaylit
apophony
verbal system
negative preterite
Taqbaylit
apophony
verbal system
negative preterite
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique
English abstract : [en]
The verbal system of Kabyle Berber is based on vocalic alternations between Imperfective and Perfective stems. These alternations are reputed to be random and therefore lexicalized. In this article, I propose an analysis ...
Show more >The verbal system of Kabyle Berber is based on vocalic alternations between Imperfective and Perfective stems. These alternations are reputed to be random and therefore lexicalized. In this article, I propose an analysis that accounts for them. I show that the Berber verbal stems are related by an apophonic derivation, as attested in German and Classical Arabic. This mechanism makes it possible to predict the vocalization of Berber Perfect stems on the basis of the vocalization of Imperfective stems. In the light of this analysis, the negative preterite stem, a stem that has always been considered to be lexicalized by the traditional grammars, proves to be derivable from its positive counterpart, the preterite stem.Show less >
Show more >The verbal system of Kabyle Berber is based on vocalic alternations between Imperfective and Perfective stems. These alternations are reputed to be random and therefore lexicalized. In this article, I propose an analysis that accounts for them. I show that the Berber verbal stems are related by an apophonic derivation, as attested in German and Classical Arabic. This mechanism makes it possible to predict the vocalization of Berber Perfect stems on the basis of the vocalization of Imperfective stems. In the light of this analysis, the negative preterite stem, a stem that has always been considered to be lexicalized by the traditional grammars, proves to be derivable from its positive counterpart, the preterite stem.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
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