Verse:Mwail/Theic languages: Difference between revisions
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== Morphology == | == Morphology == | ||
Hollow root ʔimālah depends on whether it's 2-y or 2-w: | Hollow root ʔimālah depends on whether it's 2-y or 2-w: | ||
* ''* | * ''*rēn'' 'he seized', ''*māt'' 'he died' | ||
== Syntax == | == Syntax == | ||
Proto-Majorcan Arabic had the emphatic "ADJ el-NOUN" construction (from earlier "STATIVE_VERB al-NOUN"), which got reinterpreted as 'an ADJ NOUN' under Irish influence: "In Classical Arabic syncopated forms do not usually occur, the only place where they occur is when the verbs naʕima ‘he is glad’ and baʔisa ‘he is miserable’ are employed as pseudo-verbs of emphatic qualification, such as niʕma r-raǧulu ‘what a wonderful man!’ and biʔsa n-nisāʔu ‘what evil women!’ (Fischer 2002, §259–263)." (van Putten) | Proto-Majorcan Arabic had the emphatic "ADJ el-NOUN" construction (from earlier "STATIVE_VERB al-NOUN"), which got reinterpreted as 'an ADJ NOUN' under Irish influence: "In Classical Arabic syncopated forms do not usually occur, the only place where they occur is when the verbs naʕima ‘he is glad’ and baʔisa ‘he is miserable’ are employed as pseudo-verbs of emphatic qualification, such as niʕma r-raǧulu ‘what a wonderful man!’ and biʔsa n-nisāʔu ‘what evil women!’ (Fischer 2002, §259–263)." (van Putten) | ||