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Article Dans Une Revue Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics Année : 2022

Asymmetric inflection in Berber: the view from gender

Noam Faust
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Mohamed Lahrouchi

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In Tashlhiyt Berber nouns, grammatical gender is usually expressed on both edges of the noun by the segment /t/. However, at the right edge, there is another, more minor pattern: many grammatically feminine nouns end in a vowel. The regular realization involves a final /t/ associated to a suffixal CV unit. Vowel-final feminine nouns are derived when a final stem vowel is associated to the V position of the suffix, blocking the association of the /t/. This right-edge effect is a mirror-image of Bendjaballah’s (2011) analysis of the left-edge inflection of vowel-initial stems. The distribution of gender marking in loans provides further supports to our analysis.

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halshs-03054108 , version 1 (11-12-2020)
halshs-03054108 , version 2 (20-12-2022)

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Noam Faust, Mohamed Lahrouchi. Asymmetric inflection in Berber: the view from gender. Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 2022, 14 (2), pp.194-209. ⟨10.1163/18776930-01402005⟩. ⟨halshs-03054108v2⟩
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