On the Lengthening of Verbal Bases in Indo-European in an Afroasiatic Perspective
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of Indo-European Studies |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | vocalic quantity; grammatical function; verbal morphology; Indo-European; Afroasiatic |
| Description | In reconstructed verbal morphology of the Indo-European protolanguage the vocalic quantity played a grammatical role. This feature is relatively unique in language families of Northwest Eurasia. It is missing even in the Kartvelian protolanguage, where the qualitative ablaut analogous to the Indo-European ‘Schwebeablaut’ is reconstructible (Gamkrelidze 1967; Antilla 1969, 177-78). Practically the only exception among neighbouring language (macro)families is Afroasiatic. The contribution is concentrated on comparison of parallel verbal formations with vocalic quantity in both Indo-European and Afroasiatic. |
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