Abstract

Attempting to interpret palatalization of the feminine marker -at to -ay in the Shammari dialect of Najd, Putten (2017) assumes that such change constitutes evidence that this dialect cannot be derived histori-cally from Classical Arabic, and that its development did not participate in the at > ah change in all positions. In this response, I view this change to follow the same path Classical Arabic came across, but with an additional internal change peculiar to this variety. I argue for an intermediate stage of -at > -ah > -ay in the Shammari dialect of Najd. Therefore, I consider this phenomenon an initial stage of imāla (an incipient imāla) wherein palatalization diffuses within certain lexically-conditioned categories.

中文翻译：

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Shammari阿拉伯语中的女性结局：对Marijn Van Putten的回应

摘要

试图解释女性标记的颚-在以- AY的内志，普顿（2017年）的沙马里方言假定这种变化构成证据表明，这种话不能从古典阿拉伯语衍生histori -凯莉，那它的发展没有参加在> ah的所有位置更改。在此回应中，我认为此更改将遵循古典阿拉伯语所遇到的相同路径，但还会有此变种特有的其他内部更改。我主张的中间阶段-在> -啊> - AY在内志的沙马里方言。因此，我认为此现象是imāla（初期imāla），但在某些词法条件的类别中，类别化扩散。