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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Robert R. Ratcliffe" <ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

You have to be careful about what you mean, because
"non-concatenative morphology" includes ablaut (apophony),
reduplication, etc.; which are widely found, but not necessarily
typical of Semitic. The noteworthy feature of the Semitic system, as
I would describe it, is the use of invariant syllabic-vocalic
patterns associated with specific derivational categories. This type
of morphology is rare, but found sporadically in a lot of places, and
fairly prominently in some (nearly? extinct?) idigenous languages of
California. A lot of work was done on this in the aftermath of
McCarthy's work. I tried to gather up as much as I could and put
together a unified theory in a paper soon to appear. Here are some
references:

Akinlabi, Akinbiyi & Eno Urua: 1993,  “Prosodic Target and Vocalic
Specification in the Ibibio Verb”, in Jonathan Mead, ed., The
Proceedings of the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, Stanford Lingusitsic Association, Stanford Ca., pp. 1-14.

Archangeli, Diana: 1988, Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology
and Morphology, Garland Publishing: New York [Doctoral dissertation,
MIT 1984].
_____: 1991, “Syllabification and Prosodic Templates in Yawelmani”,
NLLT 9:231-283.

Dell, François & Mohamed Elmedlaoui: 1992, “Quantitative Transfer in
the Nonconcatenative Morphology of Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber”, Journal
of Afroasiatic Languages 3/2:89-125.

Goldsmith, John: 1990, Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology, Basil
Blackwell: Oxford, UK/ Cambridge, Ma.

Lombardi, Linda & John McCarthy: 1991, “Prosodic Circumscription in
Choctaw Phonology”, Phonology 8: 37-71.

Noske, Roland: 1985, “Syllabification and Syllable Changing Processes
in Yawelmani” in Harry van der Hulst & Noval Smith, eds., Advances in
Non-linear Phonology, Foris, Dordrecht, pp. 335-362.

Ratcliffe, Robert. in press. Toward a universal theory of
shape-invariant (templatic) morphology:  Classical Arabic
re-considered. in Singh, Rajendra and Stanley Starosta, eds.
Explorations In Seamless Morphology. New Delhi, London, and Thousand
Oaks: Sage Publications.
_____: 1997 “Templatic Morphology in English: -ought/aught Verbs and
-ould Verbs” Proceedings of the Thirteenth Japan English Linguistic
Society Conference.

Smith, Norval: 1985, “Spreading, Reduplication and the Default Option
in Miwok Nonconcatenative Morphology”in in Harry van der Hulst &
Noval Smith, eds., Advances in Non-linear Phonology, Foris,
Dordrecht, pp. 363-380.

Ulrich, Charles H.:  1994, “A unified account of Choctaw intensives”,
Phonology 11: 325-339.


With regard to your second question, I'll try to send a separate post later.

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*NEW E-mail address: ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp*

Robert R. Ratcliffe
Associate Professor, Arabic and Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Asahi-machi 3-11-1, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8534 Japan

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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

Hi L,


      See Hodge *Afro-Asiatic* on the "bi-literal theory:"  Semitic roots

like flq  brk  prq frd   <== original root P/FRX, where X is a MODIFIER;

Arabic  jmm=jm`=jmhr=jml [jmd?];  qSr=qSS=qDD=qDb; farra~nafara;

      Let me know if you find anything outside the Afro-Asiatic group.

      Thanks and best wishes,

                                      Mike Schub


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Date:  16 Jan 2002
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Non-concatenative morphology response

Also:  lSq  lSj lSx  ; baththa==>ba`atha==>ba`thara==>ibtha`arra  etc.

Best wishes,                Mike Schub


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