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Extrinsic ordering is when the order of application of two rules must be specifically indicated and does not follow from a general principle. In Arabic the survival of a long vowel in a syllable made closed by a contraction may be a case of such ordering.
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This study rejects various theories on the nature and history of the Chadic verbal system which claimed that Proto-Chadic had a fundamental binary distinction of aspect and a characteristically marked Imperfective verb stem. This study presents comparative evidence from 10 languages of the Biu- Mandara branch of Chadic to support its contention.
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The analysis of writing is shown to parallel that of speech. Graphemes-- that is, letter shapes--are analyzed in terms of the physical distinctive features of strokes, minimal pairs, and etic and emic components.
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In the Somali language, a number of indicators (phrasal particles) act as signals of completeness of the sentence and affect the case system and verbal concords. The formulations presented in this article provide an overall view of the role of indicators and are illustrated by annotated example.
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The study examines the difference between lexicalized forms of certain predicate-types in Modern Hebrew as manifested through the binyan system of verb- morphology, on the one hand, and their more analytical or "decomposed" counterparts.
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Analysis of the pronunciation of the prefixed particles in Hebrew formal and semi-formal speech shows that deviations from the norms are of significance only in the minority of the forms, espe cially in the rare environments.
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The complexity of some sentence types in Urban Moroccan Arabic is studied here and compared with some other dialects of Arabic.
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Chala (Cala) is a Gur language of Ghana. This is an attempt to formulate rules for the use of consonants in Chala.
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This is a sociolinguistic analysis of some very common ways in the dialect spoken in Gaza to refer to concepts of time and space on one hand, and other types of quantification on the other.
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A study of the Chadic family of Afro-Aasiatic languages spoken in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.
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A study of constructions in the modern Hausa language, providing detailed historical explanations of their origin and development. The weork starts with morphological forms and syntactic patterns reconstructed for Proto-Hausa, and is supported by reliable comparative data from other Chadic languages.
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This volume describes the 825 figurines and model vehicles that were discovered during the 1965 and 1967 seasins of excavations at Tell Selenkahiye and Wreyde in Syria.
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Seven constraints on consonant sequences in Israeli Hebrew, which are the modern reflexes of older Semitic constraints, are discussed in this essay.
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This study suggests a hierarchy for the familiar syntactic and semantic factors determining realization of Hebrew verbs in the particular conjugations.
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