Medio-Passives of the Primae Waw verbs
A final conundrum among a whole slew of conundrums among these among the primae waw verbs is the behaviour of the mediopassive derivation.In general, I don't think we are quite ready to reconstruct the...
View ArticleTawātur al-Qirāʾāt according to ibn al-Jazarī
One of the interesting parts of modern Islamic orthodoxy is the belief that the ten canonical reading traditions are transmitted by tawātur, mass transmission so massive that it is unthinkable that...
View ArticleLaysa r-rasmu bi-qirāʾah!
Me and my dear friend and colleague Hythem Sidky keep on telling each other that every time we're at a conference, we should get pins that read ليس الرسم بقراءة "The consonantal skeleton is not a...
View ArticleSegolate Plurals and North-West Semitic
Yesterday, I wrote a little thread on the productive segolate plurals in Arabic, and how this challenges some of the notions of this as a North-West-Semitic isogloss. I received some pushback, several...
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