Re: about semitic morphology

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:28:25 +0100 Tim May <butsuri@...>
writes:
> Balazs Sudar writes:
>  > Hi all!
>  > I have a question about the triconsonantal system. Do this
> languages have an unchanging
>  > form for nouns, or are all different, only the three consonants
> of an idea must be
>  > unchanged in different words?
>  > An example:
>  > the root for writing is: M G D  for living  D R B
>  > the noun "writing" is   "megid"
>  > That means:
>  > should the noun for "loving" be "derib"???? Or there is no rule
> that all same function words
>  > must have the same form?
> There are many people here who know more about semitac languages
> than
> I do, but yes, if they're both regular, the forms will be the same.
> You might find this page about the Arabic verb interesting.
> http://www.cedarseed.com/air/arabicverb.html
> Note, though, that it's my impression that most Semitic languages
> have many irregular conjugations of roots.
-

Also, different verbs can come from different paradigms (|binyanim| in
Hebrew), which have different patterns.  For instance, in Hebrew, the
paradigm |pa`al|'s noun pattern is |C@Ci:Ca:|, while the noun pattern of
the paradigm |pi`eil| is |CiC²u:C|.  There are also irregular ones (or
minor sub-patterns), like the noun form of the |pi`eil| verb BQSh isn't
*/biqqu:S/, but instead it's /baqqa:Sa:/.


-Stephen (Steg)
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