Abstract This paper provides two new arguments for the existence of the root as a level of representation in Semitic languages. The first argument, from the South Arabian language Mehri, presents a case of allomorphy in which the choice of the suffixal exponent is sensitive to the last vowel of its base, but not to its last consonant, even though the latter is closer to the position of the suffix than the former. Only an approach which distinguishes between a root and a template can explain this case by placing the template closer to the suffix than the root, against the linear order of segments. The second argument shows how in two Neo-Aramaic languages (Jewish Urmi and Jewish Arbel), only the consonants of verbs must be stored; all other verbal exponents are predictable on this basis.

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从梅赫里和新亚拉姆人生代闪族的根源的新原因

摘要本文提供了两个新的论据，证明根的存在是闪米特语言的一种表示形式。来自南阿拉伯语言Mehri的第一个论点提出了一个同素异形的情况，其中后缀指数的选择对基数的最后一个元音敏感，但对最后一个辅音不敏感，即使后者更接近位置后缀比前者大。只有一种区分根和模板的方法可以通过将模板放置在比后根更靠后缀的位置，而不是段的线性顺序来解释这种情况。第二个参数说明如何在两种新亚拉姆语（犹太语Urmi和犹太人Arbel）中仅存储动词的辅音；在此基础上，所有其他言语指数都是可以预测的。