WebMost instances of apophony develop historically from changes due to phonological assimilation that are later grammaticalized (or morphologized) when the environment causing the assimilation is lost. Such is the case with English goose/geese and breath/breathe.. Types. Apophony may involve various types of alternations, including …

WebThe Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.They are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of West Asia, the Horn of Africa, and latterly North Africa, Malta, West Africa, and in large immigrant and expatriate communities in North America, Europe, and Australasia.The terminology was first used in the 1780s by …

WebClassification. The Egyptian language belongs to the Afroasiatic language family. Among the typological features of Egyptian that are typically Afroasiatic are its fusional morphology, nonconcatenative morphology, a series of emphatic consonants, a three-vowel system /a i u/, nominal feminine suffix *-at, nominal m-, adjectival *-ī and …

WebArabic has a nonconcatenative "root-and-pattern" morphology: A root consists of a set of bare consonants (usually three), which are fitted into a discontinuous pattern to form words. For example, the word for 'I wrote' is constructed by combining the root k-t-b 'write' with the pattern -a-a-tu 'I Xed' to form katabtu 'I wrote'.

WebBiblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית, (Ivrit Miqra'it) (help · info) or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא, (Leshon ha-Miqra) (help · info)), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and ...

WebNella linguistica descrittiva moderna, il morfema è il più piccolo elemento dotato di significato in una parola (o in un enunciato) e si colloca sul piano della prima articolazione.In questo senso, rappresenta l'unità di analisi della morfologia. Questa analisi, detta "analisi morfemica", consiste nell'individuazione di confini tra elementi linguistici e avviene tramite …

WebModern Hebrew grammar is partly analytic, expressing such forms as dative, ablative, and accusative using prepositional particles rather than morphological cases.. On the other hand, Modern Hebrew grammar is also fusional synthetic: inflection plays a role in the formation of verbs and nouns (using non-concatenative discontinuous morphemes …