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Qualification and comparison in Berber. The verb-noun distinction and its Fluctuations
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Catherine Taine-Cheikh
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11. April 2014
Abstract
The world's languages generally distinguish between nouns and verbs. However, many do not have a specific class of adjectives with its own significantly different grammatical properties to set it apart from nouns and verbs. This is true of Berber which, in this respect, differs from Arabic. That being said, if one looks at the details, there is wide variety across Berber languages. Most have both ``verbal'' adjectives and ``nominal'' adjectives, with more or less marked secondary properties. Some have a small adjective class for describing certain core properties. Historically, these could reflect an earlier phase of Berber.
Keywords: Berber; qualification; adjective; syntactic categories; predicative vs. attributive function
Published Online: 2014-4-11
Published in Print: 2014-4-1
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Tashlhiyt's ban of complex syllable onsets: phonetic and perceptual evidence
- Derivational gender in Moroccan Berber: examples from Ayt Seghrushen
- Siwi addressee agreement and demonstrative typology
- Foundations for a typology of the annexed/absolute state systems in Berber
- Qualification and comparison in Berber. The verb-noun distinction and its Fluctuations
- Typology of relative clauses: the case of Berber
- Topicalization in Berber: a typological perspective
- Focalization process and intonation in Meridional Berber: the case of Tamasheq and Tetserret
- Typology of Eastern Medieval Berber
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Berber;
qualification;
adjective;
syntactic categories;
predicative vs. attributive function
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Tashlhiyt's ban of complex syllable onsets: phonetic and perceptual evidence
- Derivational gender in Moroccan Berber: examples from Ayt Seghrushen
- Siwi addressee agreement and demonstrative typology
- Foundations for a typology of the annexed/absolute state systems in Berber
- Qualification and comparison in Berber. The verb-noun distinction and its Fluctuations
- Typology of relative clauses: the case of Berber
- Topicalization in Berber: a typological perspective
- Focalization process and intonation in Meridional Berber: the case of Tamasheq and Tetserret
- Typology of Eastern Medieval Berber
