Arabic-L:LING:More verb innovations

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 20 Jan 2007
From:Anna-Karin Guindy <akguindy at get2net.dk>
Subject:More verb innovations

Heard from an Iraqi:
yishayyik (from "to check")
Anna-Karin Guindy

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Date: 20 Jan 2007
From:"Jonathan Owens" <jowens at casl.umd.edu>
Subject:More verb innovations

Waris, a secret language of Arab Koran school students in NE Nigeria has
a number of interesting derivational patterns, including a few with
quadriliterals:

mu-'alfit "married man", which in turn < 'ali fato "ali of the house"
(fato = "house" in Kanuri)
kaskaj "read, recite" comes from Kanuri kiska diya lit. "woods outside",
since the Koran school students traditionally study in isolated rural
areas.

Mifsud, "Loan Verbs in Maltese" (1995) contains a good overview of the
type of morphological adaptations which have been reported in various
Arabic-speaking regions.

Jonathan Owens

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