T-Stems in Soqotri

Maria Bulakh is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of HSE University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a fieldwork researcher on Soqotra since 2017 and a member of the Russian-Soqotri fieldwork team headed by Vitaly Naumkin. Her publications deal with Soqotri, Ethio-Semitic languages and Semitic in general. She is among the authors of the first two volumes of Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature (Brill, 2014, 2018)

• PrefaceList of TablesAbbreviations1 Introduction1.1 The Soqotri Language1.2 The Verbal System of Soqotri2 The Morphology of T-Stems2.1 Strong Verbs of VIII and VI2.2 Strong Verbs of VII2.3 Phonologically Motivated Variations2.4 Conjugational Subtypes Motivated by the Consonantal Set of the Root2.5 Irregular Verbs2.6 Biconsonantal Roots in the T-Stem3 The Diachronic Dimension of the T-Stems3.1 Strong Roots3.2 The Diachronic Dimension of T-Stems of Geminated Verbs3.3 The Diachronic Dimension of Hollow Verbs3.4 The Diachronic Dimension of C1C2y verbs3.5 The Diachronic Dimension of T-Stem Verbs with Root-Initial t and with Root-Initial “Weak” Consonant3.6 Conclusions: The Reconstructed Bases for Strong and Weak T-Stem Verbs4 The Semantics of the T-Stems4.1 Semantics of VIII and VI4.2 Equipollent Pairs with Stem II4.3 Equipollent Pairs with Stem IV and Derivation from Stem IV4.4 Semantic Opposition between VIII/VI and VII4.5 Semantics of VI: The Evidence of the Corpus4.6 Semantics of the T-Stems: The Diachronic DimensionAppendix: The Lexical Data1 Strong Verbs2 The Type C1©C3 (Verbs with the Second “Idle Glottis” Consonant)3 The Type ʔC2C3/tC2C3 (Verbs with Root-Initial ʔ and Verbs with Root-Initial T)4 The Type C1C2C2 (Geminated Roots)5 The Type C1VC3 (Hollow Roots)6 The Type C1C2y7 The Type C1C2ʔ8 “Doubly Weak” Roots9 Irregular Verbs10 Biconsonantal VerbsBibliographyIndex