The first person prefixes in South Ethio-Semitic

IF 0.4 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1515/jall-2023-2003

M. Bulakh

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Abstract South Ethio-Semitic (SES) is a genealogical branch of Ethio-Semitic (ES), a subgroup of Semitic found almost entirely in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The paper considers two features characteristic of several South Ethio-Semitic languages. Firstly, the Prefix Conjugation displays a common 1sg/1pl prefix in various SES languages. Secondly, an innovative 1pl suffix is often employed in the Prefix Conjugation. In forms with 1sg/1pl syncretism, this suffix takes over the functional load of the plural marker. Both features are innovative in SES, and their absence from a number of languages in each of the main subbranches suggests areal diffusion rather than a shared innovation going back to the Proto-SES level. In former studies, it has been suggested that the innovative 1pl suffix was borrowed from Cushitic and that its introduction has triggered the 1sg/1pl syncretism. This hypothesis is critically reassessed in the present paper, which considers in detail various patterns of 1sg/1pl syncretism and various patterns of its interaction with the 1pl suffix, and offers a tentative reconstruction of their emergence and spread in the languages in question.

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南埃塞俄比亚闪米特语的第一人称前缀

摘要南埃塞俄比亚闪族（SES）是埃塞俄比亚闪族的一个系谱分支，几乎完全在埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚发现。本文论述了几种南埃塞俄比亚闪米特语言的两个特点。首先，前缀共轭显示了各种SES语言中常见的1sg/1pl前缀。其次，前缀共轭中经常使用创新的1pl后缀。在具有1sg/1pl合一的形式中，这个后缀接管了复数标记的功能负载。这两个功能在SES中都是创新的，它们在每个主要分支的许多语言中的缺失表明区域扩散，而不是回到原始SES级别的共享创新。在以前的研究中，有人认为创新的1pl后缀是从Cushitic借来的，它的引入引发了1sg/1pl的融合。本文对这一假设进行了批判性的重新评估，详细考虑了1sg/1pl融合的各种模式及其与1pl后缀相互作用的各种模式，并对它们在所讨论的语言中的出现和传播进行了初步的重建。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics was founded in 1979 and has established itself as an important refereed forum for publications in African linguistics. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics welcomes original contributions on all aspects of African language studies, synchronic as well as diachronic, theoretical as well as data-oriented. The journal further contains a list of recently published books on African languages and linguistics, which many libraries find to be of use for the acquisition of books. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.