The T-Stems in Soqotri

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The T-Stems in Soqotri is written by Maria Bulakh and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004703780 (ISBN 10) and 9789004703780 (ISBN 13).

This book presents the results of a field research on the verbal system of Soqotri, a little-studied language spoken on the island of Soqotra (Arabian Sea) and belonging to the Modern South Arabian branch of Semitic. The investigation focuses on the so-called T-stems (marked by the infix -t-), mostly employed as derivational means of detransitivisation. In this book you will find comprehensive descriptions of the synchronic morphology and semantics of the T-stems, as well as an inquiry into their diachronic background. Simultaneously, the study is a contribution to the general typology of detransitivising derivation in the languages of the world.