The Origin of *s3 in the Ḥaḍramitic and Modern South Arabian Third Person Feminine Personal Pronouns

Author(s):
Suchard, B.D. (0000-0002-5688-4488)
Published
2017
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

The Modern South Arabian third person feminine pronouns show an unexpected reflex s for Proto-Semitic *s1. This s is argued to be the regular outcome of *s3 = *ts, which replaced *s1 = *s in these forms due to phonological reanalysis in constructions like *malkat sī’ ‘she is a queen’ → *malkat tsī’. In Ḥaḍramitic, these feminine pronouns also reflect *s3, but their relation to the Modern South Arabian forms remains unclear.

Date issued
2017
Language
English
Is part of
Journal of Semitic Studies (2017), Vol. 62, no. 1, p. 69-76
hdl
1887/69048
doi
10.1093/jss/fgw061
URL
https://academic.oup.com/jss/article/3052641/The