Gender and number morphology in Ethio-Eritrean semitic languages
The vowel -ā can be identified as a marker of nominal and verbal plurality in different Semitic and Afroasiatic languages. The vowels -ā (feminine plural) and -ū (masculine plural) which are used for both internal and external plurals are, according to Hasselbach (2007), derived from a verbal system...
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Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2021-09-01
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Series: | Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali |
Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/12006 |