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oapen-20.500.12657-553412022-06-01T03:26:34Z DPs, Phi-features and Tense in the Context of Abyssinian (Eritrean and Ethiopian) Semitic Languages Tewolde, Tesfay bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism This study discusses DPs, Phi-features and Tense in Abyssinian Semitic languages. DPs and TPs have parallel structures. Their subjects are generated within the projection of lexical categories which move to Spec positions of associated non-lexical categories (Fukui 2006). Aspect is indicated by inserting different vowel patterns into the roots of base stems. Tense, however, is indicated by different forms of verb to be (Jelinek 2002). In North Abyssinian Semitic languages, verbs and nouns have similar patterns to indicate plurality and this is due to an economy constraint on the grammar (Siddiqi 2009). Phi-features in the affixes and independent pronouns are closely related (Buccellati 1996). We may assume the development of the latter into the former or vice versa via a clitic stage (Fuß 2005). 2022-05-31T10:27:06Z 2022-05-31T10:27:06Z 2016 book ONIX_20220531_9788864533292_625 2420-8361 9788864533292 9788892733411 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/55341 eng Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna application/pdf n/a 9788864533292.pdf https://books.fupress.com/isbn/9788864533292 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-6453-329-2 10.36253/978-88-6453-329-2 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788864533292 9788892733411 32 326 Florence open access
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This study discusses DPs, Phi-features and Tense in Abyssinian Semitic languages. DPs and TPs have parallel structures. Their subjects are generated within the projection of lexical categories which move to Spec positions of associated non-lexical categories (Fukui 2006). Aspect is indicated by inserting different vowel patterns into the roots of base stems. Tense, however, is indicated by different forms of verb to be (Jelinek 2002). In North Abyssinian Semitic languages, verbs and nouns have similar patterns to indicate plurality and this is due to an economy constraint on the grammar (Siddiqi 2009). Phi-features in the affixes and independent pronouns are closely related (Buccellati 1996). We may assume the development of the latter into the former or vice versa via a clitic stage (Fuß 2005).
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