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The broken plural in Soqotri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2020

Leonid Kogan
Leonid Kogan*
Affiliation:
Russian State University for the Humanities / National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow
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Abstract

The article investigates the broken pural in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen). It is based on extensive field research and rich collections of lexical evidence. Primarily synchronic in its approach, the article pays attention to historical problems of Modern South Arabian and Semitic phonology and morphology whenever appropriate.

Keywords

SemiticModern South ArabianSoqotriNominal morphologyPlural formation
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 83 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 1 - 23
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Copyright © SOAS University of London, 2020

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Footnotes

To the memory of Robert Ratcliffe

The article has been written in the framework of the project 34.5109.217 supported by the Ministry of Science and Education of Russia. My sincere gratitude goes to Dr Maria Bulakh for her valuable remarks on this article and, more broadly, for numerous discussions on Soqotri grammar and lexicon.

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