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The imperfective in Berber

Evidence of innovated forms and functions
  • Mena B. Lafkioui
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Abstract

This article analyzes the morphological oppositions and semantic distinctions that originate from transformation processes regarding the imperfective in Berber. The synchronic and diachronic phenomena studied in this contribution offer examples of how language is continually modulated through innovations that emerge in structurally layered and causal formations dictated by system-based properties.

Abstract

This article analyzes the morphological oppositions and semantic distinctions that originate from transformation processes regarding the imperfective in Berber. The synchronic and diachronic phenomena studied in this contribution offer examples of how language is continually modulated through innovations that emerge in structurally layered and causal formations dictated by system-based properties.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction
  4. Afroasiatic 1
  5. Part I. Afroasiatic
  6. Did Proto-Afroasiatic have marked nominative or nominative-accusative alignment? 11
  7. The limits and potentials of cladistics in Semitic 23
  8. Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowing 41
  9. Part II. Forms and functions
  10. Reconsidering the ‘perfect’–‘imperfect’ opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system 61
  11. The imperfective in Berber 85
  12. Condition, interrogation and exception 105
  13. The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic 131
  14. Part III. Predication and beyond
  15. Insubordination in Modern South Arabian 153
  16. Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic) 167
  17. The characterization of conditional patterns in Old Babylonian Akkadian 185
  18. Locative predication in Chadic 203
  19. Unipartite clauses 235
  20. The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber) 261
  21. Index 287
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.339.06laf

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction
  4. Afroasiatic 1
  5. Part I. Afroasiatic
  6. Did Proto-Afroasiatic have marked nominative or nominative-accusative alignment? 11
  7. The limits and potentials of cladistics in Semitic 23
  8. Lexicostatistical evidence for Ethiosemitic, its subgroups, and borrowing 41
  9. Part II. Forms and functions
  10. Reconsidering the ‘perfect’–‘imperfect’ opposition in the Classical Arabic verbal system 61
  11. The imperfective in Berber 85
  12. Condition, interrogation and exception 105
  13. The semantics of modals in Kordofanian Baggara Arabic 131
  14. Part III. Predication and beyond
  15. Insubordination in Modern South Arabian 153
  16. Possessive and genitive constructions in Dahālik (Ethiosemitic) 167
  17. The characterization of conditional patterns in Old Babylonian Akkadian 185
  18. Locative predication in Chadic 203
  19. Unipartite clauses 235
  20. The Interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber) 261
  21. Index 287
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